PAIN

Dear lovely internets,

I missed my seminar this morning partly because my back hurt. Ok, I was running late anyway, but I would have got there about ten minutes late. But I started walking and five minutes in, my right shin was hurting down the front and my left lower back/hip area was excruciatingly painful, with something going on down my leg to my knee. This has happened before, but it's never been this bad. I figured it had something to do with my appalling posture in my chair at home (it's too low, and I curl over, and it's all kinds of bad) but seriously, I had to stop three or four times in my walk and take off my rucksack (which was heavy but not excessively so) and stretch and bend and rub my back, and then start off again. This took quite a while.

Other things which might contribute to this: I wear cheap shoes; I don't exercise much other than the walking to and from university; I spend a lot of time hunched at my computer.

I'd be really interested to hear if anyone has thoughts on this, because right now I'm at university and I'm rather afraid of trying to walk home because I'm so worried it's going to hurt that much again. It was really bad.