This is my story without advice or conclusions: 10 years of lower back pain. Average of 5 serious strikes a year would take me out for 3 or 4 days completely.

This is my story without advice or conclusions: 10 years of lower back pain. Average of 5 serious strikes a year would take me out for 3 or 4 days completely. A feeling of weakness or mild pain occurring regularly in between those. Nothing on MRI. Lots of different Physio etc at different times. Special chairs, special cushions, Difene (diclofenac) ... too much. Late 2016 got sciatic pain for the first time. Took me out for 5 days. Got over it. Started Pilates. Early 2017 got hit with sciatic pain again - decided to just go through it. After 6 weeks I gave in and took some very heavy anti-inflammatories. Woke up with massive stomach pains and assumed I was reacting to the drugs. Went to the hospital and was diagnosed with Appendicitis. They took it out. Spent a couple of days taking lovely drugs. Got out. Back still rough but different somehow. Took a valium just once, slept 16 hours. Have not had any back pain for 9 months. No drugs. No special exercise. No idea what happened. My back just feels different.