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I have some stuff called ankylosing spondylitis. The spine more or less fuses over the years. Lots of the little old folks that you see all bent over suffer with this. It starts in the lumbar in one's late 20's and finishes up in the cervical in the late 60's mid 70's. So, yes one has lots of pain that is chronic and all of the tens devices in the world don't do much. The opiates do a great job and one learns to function; but it's kind of a dead end road.
So...chronic disabling pain......what to do?????.....Get with the best specialist that really knows their stuff for your condition......get with a good pain doc that doesn't pump out the narcotics. These are rare actually; but it's worth the effort to find one.......Follow the advice and recommendations of your doc; not every Tom, Dick, and Harry that know nothing about YOUR situation; but they know a lot about theirs. And golly, if it works for them it must work for you..........
Mostly though, for me, it's all in your head. I can produce endorphins with the snap of my fingers that give me a super high and abate the pain from an 8 or 9 down to a 2 or 3. One cannot feel sorry for yourself with the "oh why me" stuff. YOU MUST STAY ACTIVE!!!!!!Once that range of motion goes it's gone forever. For some, it's the physical therapy route. For me, it's my firewood business, training my mules, expanding my hard times survival garden, target practice with several calibers, taking care of my grand children, and going up to the top of my mountain and thanking HIM for another day with HIS grace.
At 69 I look forward to many many years of doing more of what I am enjoying now. Some, I see at the Rheumy clinic are younger than I an surely not as stove-up in the joints. They sit there and complain about what they cannot do and how much it hurts............Get a life........Make of it what you can..........
I can't ride a motorcycle much anymore; but that is a choice. Can't do the arms outstretched and neck crunched up for long...........But, I find other things that I love to do and don't look back..........lolol....have over 400K of BMW bike miles.....you can see where in the U.S. I have been there by my name, and the same is true for most of Canada and Central America........As they say, been there done that. So I RV'd it for some years doing the Airstream thing; but found myself doing the "I have been here before"...........So now, I ride my mules to the top of the various ridges around me here in N.W. Georgia and N.E. Alabama. Shoot, those so called "adventure rider folks" need to get a pack mule/horse and make your own trail for a few days.........lol...isn't that what we do with our lives???.........
MAKE OUR OWN TRAIL AND FOLLOW IT??????..........God bless............Dennis
However, contrary to some, I think that the correct seat is of value under some circumstances. For a number of years, I rode with a pad (cut from a padded exercise mat) bungeed over my seat on the /7. At that time, the stock seat was too hard and irritated my lower back and the nerves in my butt/legs. The pad helped alleviate pressure points, and over time as I improved my condition, I was able to remove the pad.
I've only ridden it locally, but I think when I do take it out for a long ride, the pain will be nothing like before. If I even have it all. The riding position on the GS and the nice big comfy seat seem to be the answers to my back (tailbone) pain problem. Time will tell.
I hope you are right but many of us have had to go the custom seat route because the stock seats on most of the BMW models are only good for a few hours for a lot of butts.
Fellow member Damun Gracenin wrote this article a while back...