Serious Back Injury

**vinny_vegas** · 03-11-2005, 07:40 PM

I'm just recovering from a really bad back injury and I wanted to get some feedback from people who maybe seen something similar.

The last cycle I did was back in may of 04, fina with nothing else.
In september, I went to sleep one night, woke up the next morning and it felt like i was hit by truck. I didn't sustain any injury in the gym (that I know of).
I couldn't walk properly for a few days...it took about 2 weeks before i could go back to the gym. I felt as thought I never really recovered, I would get all kinds of back spasms but I continued to work out. I saw a chiropractor..he couldn't help me. In December I went to see my family doctor, and he sent me for a x-ray which came back negative. At this point he was reluctant to refer me to a specialist and told me to come back in the new year and he would look at me again.

About two weeks into January, I woke up one morning. Couldn't move at all.
I felt winded. The worst pain you could ever imagine. It felt like someone took a baseball bat to my legs. I had to be rushed to the hospital, turned out I suffered a compression fracture in my L1 vertebrae. The doctors had never anything like it. I was told this is not something that happens spontaneously, it's usually the result of a fall or an accident. Neither of which happend to me. My question is could juice have caused muscles in my back to crush my vertebrae

**gixxer600** · 03-11-2005, 07:54 PM

Welcome to the board! I'm no doctor, but unless the fina made you grow like the Incredible Hulk overnight, there is no way the muscles would do that. I don't see it being juice related at all. All I could say I wish you all the best and good luck to a speedy recovery! Keep us updated.

**vinny_vegas** · 03-11-2005, 11:14 PM

There was a lot of talk that I may not walk again because of the bone spurs putting pressure on my spinal cord. Because of the nature of the injury the neurosurgeon wanted to operate immediately. There was a high probability I would lose a lot of blood and being a diabetic, there was a good chance I wouldn't heal very quickly + all the other potential complications that go along with the surgery. I'm at the point where I'm learning how to walk again.
It's amazing, I went from throwing around 300lbs + plus on bench to not knowing if I was going to ever walk again. I'm being told I'm looking at 12-18 months before I can make a full recovery.