Switched to a standing desk for 3 months and my back pain got worse

I set up a cheap adjustable riser at my desk in Austin back in January and followed the whole alternating schedule thing. Turns out I was leaning on one hip all day without realizing it, so now I'm trying a $40 memory foam mat plus a timer app. Has anyone else hit this issue where standing makes posture problems more obvious, or am I just doing it wrong?

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alice8925d agoMost Upvoted

Yeah, the "leaning on one hip" thing got me too. Took me forever to notice I was doing it. The mat helps but it's not magic. I had to set a little alarm every 20 minutes just to make myself shift my weight around.

carter.laura25d ago

Is it bad that I only realized I was doing the same thing after my left hip started filing a complaint with my brain, @alice89?