Obviously I'm not looking for a medical diagnosis. I'm already getting that cared off. But input from someone with a similar experience would be nice.So it seems years of poor posture (APT, rounded shoulders and forward neck), poor form and overall core weakness finally caught up. I've been pretty inactive in the past few months with prolonged sitting due to obsessively writing my master's degree. Had an inguinal hernia surgery about 1.5 months ago, so I've been even more inactive + even weird walking + poorer posture for about 2 months. A week and a half ago, I was stupid enough to use my bike with a heavy backpack for 3 days. Felt a slight lower back pain during those rides but I pushed throught it. However, those two nights I felt numbness in my left leg, which really scared me, so I stop the bike as soon as I figured out it was the cause.Even thought the numbness is scary, it's nothing like those horror stories about herniated discs. No pain shooting down my leg. That last day, I had pretty bad lower back pain, but no more numbness. Went to a physical therapist on wednesday and he confirmed he didn't see any sign of a herniated disc (no lateral shifting, no excruciating pain while doing some typical movements), but he saw tension in the left side of my back and gave me some basic mobility, strenghtening and stretching exercises.Started doing the PT exercises and now my whole body is so damn sore. Yesterday, I sat for a few hours and pain in LB and numbness in leg came back for longer, which makes me anxious that I might actually have a bulging disc, which from what I read the PT exercises would only aggravate the bulge. I still feel a lot of tension in my back, but also in my glutes, in the back of my legs, on my hips, on my coccyx and sometimes in my upper back (around C5 and left scapula). Also the surgery scar hurts a bit. Basically, it feels like my body decided to give up. I don't dare to sit down now and I've been trying to keep everthing as straight as my sore muscles can since it feels like loosing up would break my back.I'm supposed to leave for long-term travelling in 2.5 weeks, which I already delayed for the hernia surgery. I have a hard time believing I'll be in shape for sitting in the plane + very active lifestyle in 2 weeks. I'm miserable right now. Looks like I'd need to do some rehab for 2-3 months.Sorry for the long post, but I'm pretty lost in the sea of information and don't really know what to do.
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