CUEHEAT Heated Waist Belt, Cordless Back and Belly Heating Massage, Electric Rechargeable Battery Powered

What a brilliant design!
I have a fantastic new toy – uhhhh, medical appliance – this lumbar back brace that heats up and massages. But first, the story of how I came to need such a device.So, when I was young, our neighborhood was everybody’s playground. Neighbors, families, and friends all expected that we’d play everywhere all the time, and nobody thought anything about it. Thus it was that I found myself alone on the 2nd story back patio of our neighbor’s house across the street. I got the bright idea that I’d slide down the bannister gracefully from the 2nd floor, and float all the way to the ground. What a great idea! It would be fun! It would be epic, and it surely was!For reasons known only to a part of my brain where I don’t dare venture any longer, I decided that the best way to accomplish my fabulous goal was to dangle myself over the outside of the long staircase, with my legs hanging off the thing. I should mention that the “banister” consisted of a wrought iron tube about an inch in diameter – not exactly a firm foundation to be using for sitting and sliding.But since I was invincible, what could possibly go wrong? That turned out to be a rather longer list than I anticipated. I positioned myself perfectly, aimed straight down the banister, and pushed off with carefree abandon. Yeee-haaa! Unfortunately, I didn’t quite understand the physics of a human trying to slide down that narrow a thing. Instead of gliding elegantly to the ground two floors down, I fell off at the very top. So not cool! But wait! There’s more! I fell big time, and landed flat on my back on a cast iron manhole cover in the back yard. It had a big iron u-shaped handle that connected rather dramatically with the middle of my back. I didn’t anticipate that thing since the sewer had overflowed, camouflaging it, and can you imagine the splashing goo when I hit the ground?I sat there, stunned, not able to feel anything below my waist, covered in raw sewage, and thinking I’d never slide down another banister because I’d spend the rest of my life in a wheelchair. Or, my Mother would kill me. Pick one. I didn’t care. Well, perhaps I overreacted. I knew my Mother would call out the National Guard if I didn’t show up when I was supposed to, so I dragged what was left of myself up the long driveway to the street. Then, I crawled across the street, managed to flop onto the porch, and entered the living room where my Mother was on the couch, casually reading The Sentinel Record newspaper.How I wish you could have seen the look on her face. It was a combination of stark terror, what was that awful smell, and what has she done to herself this time? She said one word, “Shower!” While I was in the shower, she bagged up everything I had been wearing, threw it all away, and bleached the floors. The hot shower helped a lot, and when I got out, she took inventory: big bruise, but the kid’s getting the feeling back in her legs, and she seems to be able to walk around. I don’t remember, but she told me later that I flatly refused either a house call from Dr. Rosensweig, or a trip to the ER. She told me years later that she could never get through that story without getting her bridge club roaring with laughter.So, ever since that monumental lapse in judgement, I’ve had the memory of the iron handle firmly stored in the lumbar region of my back. I can usually sit down and get back up without disgracing myself, but lying down is its own reminder of that special moment I bonded with the sewage. I have to let my back “settle in”. It hurts like all get out for the first few seconds, and even more because I have to face the fact that I did it to myself. I’ve never found any way to get relief, UNTIL…This brace I got off Amazon. It heats up to three levels from “gentle warmth” to “invigorating heat” to “keep a fire extinguisher within reach at all times”, and it massages at three settings from “gentle” to “shake a tail feather” to “shall we cause the fillings to fly straight out of your face”? I love it. It has a little rechargeable battery that fits in a beautifully-designed pocket, and it does a fantastic job of making my back feel so much better. I ordered another one for the car, with its own car charger. I also ordered two extra batteries because I’m never taking this sucker off till the end of time! I’ve asked the company to develop one I can wear in the shower. And I’ve read that because it uses DC current instead of AC, it poses none of the frightening damage people carp about being in close contact with AC electrical stuff. Furthermore, it says right there in the instruggers, “No way will you ever again be tempted by a neighbor’s banister.”Thank you, Amazon, from the bottom of my heart!

Made Life Bearable
I’ve got a longstanding issue with my lower back that no doctor seems to know or pinpoint. It’s definitely related to my cycle so throughout the month, the pain gets worse and then it gets better. It’s a fun little roller coaster that I would dearly like to get off. No meds seem to work, injections didn’t work, TENS unit didn’t work, icy hot and related creams don’t really work, physical therapy didn’t work, a massage felt great but the pain came back almost immediately. The only thing that works for me right now (still searching the medication route) is heat. Sometimes I’ll take a bath or let the shower beat my back for a while. That helps. So this? This helps. A LOT.The battery itself only lasts about four hours, probably less if you use the massage setting (I rarely use it). Typically, I put it on heat and… man let me tell you. It made the chronic pain bearable. I was getting to the point where I was going to start calling in sick to work because just moving is difficult, sitting hurts, standing hurts, stretching feels good but the instant I stop stretching, the pain comes back. It’s difficult to work like that. But when the pain gets back, I strap this baby on and hoo boy. Existence is bearable again.It’s not a brace though, so if you need a brace, this is not that. It does not really offer support. The main use for this is massage and heat. And if you want to use it all day at work, maybe get an extra battery? Charge one while using the other and swap them out then one dies.I’ve had mine for a few months now and it still works great. I wear it over my clothes as I’m pretty sure it would be too hot if I used it directly on my skin and I have a high tolerance, so if you want some dang good heat, this is your guy. Gal. Thing. It’s hot is my point.Anyway, absolutely love it. Life saver. Would buy again. Would recommend. Bring it with me to work every day just in case. Worth every penny.