[Terry Allen Blackburn]

As you sleep at night your body relaxes and realigns itself. When you wake up in the morning and, start moving, it helps to get everything all limbered up and ready for the day. As the day wears on though, compression takes place, exerting more pressure on damaged discs. That is why pain is more intensified in the evening and towards night time.

When I had my first laminectomy, on my neck, in 1995, I always woke up feeling well and loosened up. By the night time I was in near tears because, gravity and compression made the nerves get stomped on much worse, causing intense pain.

So I do not think this is old-timer's disease, just gravity exerting it's pressure on us as the day wears on.

Terry Newton