Hi,
Another injury question which is more like seeking for advice and ideas of figuring this out...
And before you send me to doctor, no I can't see a doctor yet. I have financial issues that cannot be covered by the lousy insurance my workplace lease us with nor I can afford one that can actually work, otherwise I wouldn't be asking here...
Anyways, about three and half years ago, a week before I begun my first actual job, I went out to a park for a rollerblade ride. Then one of the tiny wheels got blocked by equally tiny pothole causing the whole thing dump me right on my backside.
I am not quite sure whether I hit more on the bottom or higher up (but I believe the second) but I was able to get up and walk home. It was a bit painful when I got home and more painful at the moment right at the fall happening.
However week later I was at work (or maybe even sooner) and this job is really sedentary and I've been mostly sitting down for like 14hrs per one shift few times a week (guess together it's roughly 40hrs a week).
At first my lower back was sore slightly short period after my fall but then it all went away.
I've fallen on my bottom few times before this fall and like one or two times after in following couple years. But nothing made me feel like there is any problem at all.
Just this summer, if I think correct, I begun feeling some tenderness and mild ache around my sacrum and lumbar region (L4-S3 ish) especially after sitting down long work hours. I noticed only recently but somehow it could've been happening after I fell down my bicycle on my side but I had many parts hurting some time after that so I didn't pay attention. Now I just think back and see it being the only thing that might've caused it and I've done research which isn't much helping in figuring out the reasons or directions.
At one point my lower back hurt me so I barely could sit at all but it passed and now on daily basis it's an occasional ache that just gets on my nerves like tension headache does.
Maybe I'm just hypochondriac and imagining who knows, I'm just thinking whether or not I should monitor myself for some changes in case there is something more that just a bump or imagination too vivid...