Chronic back pain is really something. I have good days and bad days, good weeks and bad weeks. I’ll have a good back pain day, then wake up the next morning feeling really badly. There doesn’t seem to be anything that triggers it. I can be really active one day and feel fine. Then I can take it easy another day and have significant pain.

That’s the most frustrating part. It’s not like any other injury that I’ve had before. In the past, I would pull a muscle or scuff my knee…I would get a little better each day until the pain went away. This back stuff is different. The pain never completely goes away. And just when I feel like I’m getting better, I get a sciatica flare-up.

Sigh.