Rant: Spent $250 on a standing desk converter and my back hurts more now

I bought this bulky thing from a random online shop thinking it would fix my slouching problem from sitting 8 hours a day coding. Instead, the height is never right so I end up craning my neck down, and now I've got a new sharp pain between my shoulder blades. Has anyone else had a standing setup actually make things worse instead of better?

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caleb_stone27d ago

Hold on, is it really that bad though? You dropped 250 bucks on a random desk thing and now you're acting like you need a spinal fusion. Maybe you just didn't sit right in the first place and now you're blaming the desk for your own bad posture habits. I see people complaining about their standing desks all the time when their actual problem is they stand like a question mark for ten minutes then sit back down.

nina_johnson8626d ago

Ngl @terry_thomas is right about the hunching thing though - that's probably what's really messing with your back. Did you actually measure your elbow height before you set it up, or did you just wing it like most people do with desk stuff?

terry_thomas27d ago

Man that sucks. I had a buddy who tried the same thing, bought one of those crank style converters from a big box store. He set it up exactly like the instructions said but after a week his shoulders were killing him. Turns out he was hunching forward because the keyboard tray was too low for his arms. He ended up putting the whole thing on blocks to raise it a few inches and that helped a little but he still got rid of it eventually. Now he just uses a stack of old textbooks under his monitor and a separate keyboard tray. Cheaper and actually works better for him.