The Hysterectomy Saga, 3/4

Part 3: What happened to my Back Pain?? Bulge at L5, source Wikimedia Commons, CC License I wrote about quitting smoking a few weeks ago. Catalyst for my quitting was the daily, excruciating back pain I experienced for over a year. After hysterectomy surgery on February 17 my back pain disappeared completely.  Because of abdominal incisions, I have been unable to continue my daily yoga-pilates-core exercises which kept the pain at bay for the past several months. In the past 3 weeks I have done no core exercises, and taken no pain …