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  • If it's disc based then likely that it's protruding for some time and then the day of high levels of pain is when it finally decided to impinge on your nerve.

  • Yep. I have a couple of degenerating discs. Yoga/core work helps stabilise and strengthen around this but as you say there are days when the bulge presses up against the nerve. It’s a long term issues 5 years ago needed steroid injections to get me to a point where I could do rehab work to reduce the symptoms. It just comes back to haunt me at inopportune moments - though to be honest there is never a good time to be incapacitated and in pain doing normal things like breathing!

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