Getting Your Back Blown Out | $40K Hernia
Sickboy
CBC
4.8 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
It may have started with a joke about getting his "back blown out", but it turned into a wild story of a two-year medical saga involving brutal nerve pain, mobility issues, and a diagnosis nobody saw coming? Meet our new friend Ryan, a professional drummer who felt a literal "pop" in his back while he was sick and quickly realized his life was about to change. After months of being told it was just "getting old" and facing the classic medical gaslighting shuffle, Ryan took his health into his own hands. We dive into the bizarre world of SCNES (Superior Clunial Nerve Entrapment Syndrome)—a condition so rare in adults that the only guy who could fix it was a pediatric surgeon in Cincinnati. Ryan breaks down the "back mice" (lipomas) that mashed his nerves into a cluster, the frustration of being a musician who can't sit on a stool, and the wild reality of having to leave the country just to get a "yes" from a doctor. This one is for anyone who’s ever been told it’s "just back pain" when it absolutely was not.
Check out Ryan’s Music:
https://www.instagram.com/_kyliefox_/
https://www.instagram.com/waylonnapadogan/
https://toobadjim.bandcamp.com/
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| 0:30.2 | This is a CBC podcast. So today, guys, we have the pleasure of sitting down with our new friend Ryan. |
| 0:49.3 | And Ryan is here to tell us all about how he had his back blown out. |
| 0:57.0 | And why are you guys laughing? |
| 0:59.4 | I don't know. |
| 0:59.9 | Why laugh at that? |
| 1:00.9 | It does sound sexual. |
| 1:01.8 | Why is what's so funny about getting your back blown out? |
| 1:05.5 | What's so funny? |
| 1:06.8 | I don't know, man. |
| 1:07.5 | It sounds like a title of something. |
| 1:08.9 | So anyway, Ryan, Ryan was, uh, was, uh, what was, the way he described it was, uh, I was running train and had my back blown out. I wish he was a cooler story. It actually is. No, we're just, we're actually just, Ryan, Ryan's 35 and we're, we're literally talk about, you know, how it sucks to get old and have a, and start to get a bad back. |
| 1:31.1 | This is what it's like to be over 30. That's it. Just what it's like to be over 35. Um, I actually, I already empathize because I've, I was on a couple long flights in the past month and totally and my back feels blown out 100% |
| 1:47.6 | so so I'm sure it's the same thing right so tell us right how was your how was the flight that |
| 1:53.2 | aggravated your back actually I did take a couple flights home post surgery and that was not fun |
| 1:58.8 | oh yeah yeah it actually in, we went to Mexico |
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