It hurts to walk and hurts alot to sit down. Yup... you guessed it! I've got a bad lower back but wait for it......... I'm 20 years old :(
I just got off the phone with my mom and I realized I must have hurt myself when I was a kid which is why i'm having these problems now... When I was around 13-14 I got orthodics because I had lower back pain... I wore them and I was fine for years and then in my first year of university it happened again and I couldnt move for a day... it happened again later on that summer and then during the summer after my 2nd year of university and then again today (2nd semester - 3rd year)

I've been to a chiropractor but I didn't feel like he helped me... I went to a physiotherapist and he told me no more heavy weight lifting :eek: (didn't listen to him) Needless to say he recommended I get an MRI to have this further checked out but I figured the pain was gone so what's the point? Anyways this is really depressing... Cause I feel like an old man and I'm always afraid of pushing myself when it comes to squatting and deadlifting because i'd kill myself if my back gave out and I was lifting (more so squatting) a really heavy weight...

I'm sure there are others here (though probably not in my age group) who have delt with chronic lower back pain... how did you deal with it? What did your docs recommend? Anyways... hopefully I don't get flack for this but I'm going to smoke a little MJ... should help with the pain! Thanks in advance.

Cause I feel like an old man and I'm always afraid of pushing myself when it comes to squatting and deadlifting because i'd kill myself if my back gave out and I was lifting (more so squatting) a really heavy weight...

Drop teh bar.

Not so easy if you're at the bottom of your lift unless you want a 100 kgs rolling down your back. I actually don't know how that would play out but it definitely does not seem like a safe situation lol

Not so easy if you're at the bottom of your lift unless you want a 100 kgs rolling down your back. I actually don't know how that would play out but it definitely does not seem like a safe situation lol

Don't do any lift you don't know how to escape.

Not so easy if you're at the bottom of your lift unless you want a 100 kgs rolling down your back. I actually don't know how that would play out but it definitely does not seem like a safe situation lol

I've done it. Try it sometime. Get to the bottom of your lift and just drop the bar behind you. Then get ready for a bunch of people to look at you like you just farted. It ain't no big thing. :tucool:

Not so easy if you're at the bottom of your lift unless you want a 100 kgs rolling down your back. I actually don't know how that would play out but it definitely does not seem like a safe situation lol

The best option would be to squat with some sort of safety, like in a power rack. The way this works is you set safety bars at the bottom of your lift so that if you can't squat the weight up, you just leave it at the bottom on the bars and duck out of the rack.

I'm dealing with a bad back too. A phisical therapist showed me an exercise where you lay on the floor face down. Pretend you're going to do a pushup but keep your hips and lower body on the floor, and push up with your arms. I stretches you lower back. It helped me, I hope this helps you.

I'd try to figure out what could be causing it; I don't know if that MRI would show or give more info or not