That sounds really impractical... I wonder if current students mostly have digital textbooks and don't have to worry about the weight?
I've mostly been fortunate, injury-wise, but sometimes health-things have laid me up. I think you already got the story about the reaction to anaesthetic? That just wiped me out, but it wasn't from something like pain, it was from the painkiller drug's too-strong-for-me effect. Or the surgeries from when I was younger; same thing. Laid me out, but more from the chemicals than anything directly physical.
Only thing like that, otherwise, is when I sometimes accidentally get meat products, and the cramps, later, will leave me in bed for most of a day.
Nothing like your back, since I have some control over it (don't eat meat!) and it sounds like your back is far more terrifying, just randomly giving way like that on you.
