18 Y/O Malaysian male here. I’ve started to have lower back pain around 2 years ago, at first I thought it was herniated disc, but it wasn’t confirmed what it was. It was in late last year that my strict Asian mom finally took me to a clinic to see what’s going on, doctor confirmed it was scoliosis, after observing that my lower back left side is slightly higher than the right.
He gave a set of exercises that’ll hopefully correct the spine and asked me to an x-ray for the curvature (unfortunately the x-ray I did at a clinic was only done when lying flat, not standing) the x ray did show a left leaning curve on my lumbar. We continue for checkups till sometime around March it stopped, probably my mom forgot about it.
Since then the pain flared up from time to time, sometimes mild, sometimes painful enough that I can’t sleep. I try doing the exercises like Cat Cow, Child Pose, etc, but those weren’t enough to alleviate the pain. I try apply specialize gel onto the painful area, but that only alleviate muscle pain, not scoliosis.
At this point, I’m pretty much about to give up. I can’t tell my mom to go to the clinic again because we already don’t have enough money for it and she gets angry or frustrated about it. Also, I feel like exercises are ineffective for me now. As I’m writing this, its so painful I’m just wishing to get a surgery to get it over with.
I’m just about to pull the plug because the pain is becoming too much of a burden on me now.