I seem to have to have had the opposite experience from most forum members here. I just finished a hammock a couple weeks ago and have not spent much time in it at all untill last night. I hope my experience was due to other factors un-related to my hammock, but after spending most of the night in it I got up this morning and shortly after being out of it ducked under a tie out line for my hammock and when I stood back up my lower back went out of place or something. I have been in excruciating pain any time I try to stand or walk all day today.
Now, for more details. I set it up during the day yesterday and had a blue foam workout pad from wal-mart between the layers for bottom insulation and a 0 degree synthetic mummy bag from wal-mart to crawl into. temps got down to about freezing then the south wind came up over night and it warmed up from about midnight on. I got out this morning at about 4:30 am because the wind was blowing 20 mph plus which wasn't bothering me except the thought of the possibility of a limb breaking out and falling on me even though I looked well for dead limbs before I set up. I had not moved around much all night and was fairly comfortable or at least I wan't having any pain and I wasn't really cold. I wasn't as warm as when I got in it but not uncomfortably cold. I got up out of the hammock and decided to take my hammock with me so the wind didn't tear it up. I didn't waste any time in doing so because the wind was blowing 20mph plus with temps probably around 35 and I was only wearing thermal bottoms and a long sleeve t-shirt with a light fleece jacket. As I took a step toward one end of my hammock and ducked under one of my tarp tie outs I felt my lower back go out as I tried to stand back up straight on the other side of the tie out. Anyways I barely got the hammock taken down and made it to the house and into bed. That was by far the worst back pain I have ever experienced every step about knocked the wind out of me.
I have been trying to rationalize this all day and hoping the hammock had no part in this. But I am thinking it probably did/might have. I laid on my back all night my legs were slightly higher than my but and back. Further more my back would have been in a slight rainbow shape all night like I would have been slightly hunched over if I were standing or sitting. When I first stood up I think my back may have been kind of "asleep"? Not as bad as when your foot goes to sleep and tingles like crazy but maybe the muscles were slightly numb. I want to think I just rushed things a little and did not give my body time to get together,... I hope anyways.
I am a little gunshy now but at the same time want to try it again as soon as I am able to try to see if I have trouble again. I will be pretty dissapointed if this doesn't work out. I've already had to listen to my share of comments like "that's probably why people sleep in beds not hammocks" and so on. What do they know? Right????
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