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Spinal Nerve Damage
by suebobs, Mar 26, 2008 01:29PM
First time searching Net.
Is my pain spinal nerve damage or somatization disorder (a mental disorder which thinks you are in pain)? What causes the symptoms of a barbed wire feeling around the waist? Why can't I twist my torso freely without severe pain? Why is my leg foot feeling numb and my left leg heavy? Why does my back itch and I have a rash where the injury site is located? Why does my neck burn at the back and I have a rash in the hair line at the top of the spine with a nodular bump to the left of the top vertebrae?
Whilst teaching three years ago, fell from a ladder when it unhooked. Thoroughly bruised but carried on working for a few days. Then dreadful barbed wire pain wrapped around my waist underneath ribs. Blood in urine for six weeks. Inconclusive tests except for T9/10 syrinx where the injury was. (MRI scan) Told by spinal neurologist that I have spinal nerve damage and if the symptoms don't go after eighteen months, they remain. I had three nerve block procedures. The last one accidentally gave me a dural puncture and I was in hospital for a week. I was intolerant to all the usual opiods, etc. The pain specialist and my surgeon son stabilised me. Since then, my pain specialist has developed cancer and is no longing working. I have just had another MRI scan after seeing an orthopaedic spine surgeon. He said that my left leg is weak and he could do more procedures to ease the pain in my upper back. (Awaiting results) My GP, two spinal surgeons and my surgeon son have all said that I do not have somatization disorder, yet I saw a psychiatrist (ordered by my barrister because spinal nerve damage doesn't show up on scans and he questioned the fact that I had suffered from depression)) who went through my past medical records and picked out IBS 25 years ago, depression after a shunt was placed in my inner ear for menieres disease 15 years ago, depression after my marriage breakup eleven years ago, post viral syndrome after a flu jab seven years ago. I am so confused. Who do I believe? The stress is getting to me, but my GP has said that I am not depressed and to take no notice of the legal people (My supportive local authority have already admitted liability for having a faulty ladder in my school resulting in me not being able to work any more.) The orthopaedic surgeon has said that I have a right to be free from pain, and he could help me because he believes the pain is definitely not somatization. On the other hand, do I ask to see a psychiatrist and see if he can achieve relieving me from pain and then risk being labelled as having somatization on my medical records? I just want to be free from pain, and know the cause of it.
Is my pain spinal nerve damage or somatization disorder (a mental disorder which thinks you are in pain)? What causes the symptoms of a barbed wire feeling around the waist? Why can't I twist my torso freely without severe pain? Why is my leg foot feeling numb and my left leg heavy? Why does my back itch and I have a rash where the injury site is located? Why does my neck burn at the back and I have a rash in the hair line at the top of the spine with a nodular bump to the left of the top vertebrae?
Whilst teaching three years ago, fell from a ladder when it unhooked. Thoroughly bruised but carried on working for a few days. Then dreadful barbed wire pain wrapped around my waist underneath ribs. Blood in urine for six weeks. Inconclusive tests except for T9/10 syrinx where the injury was. (MRI scan) Told by spinal neurologist that I have spinal nerve damage and if the symptoms don't go after eighteen months, they remain. I had three nerve block procedures. The last one accidentally gave me a dural puncture and I was in hospital for a week. I was intolerant to all the usual opiods, etc. The pain specialist and my surgeon son stabilised me. Since then, my pain specialist has developed cancer and is no longing working. I have just had another MRI scan after seeing an orthopaedic spine surgeon. He said that my left leg is weak and he could do more procedures to ease the pain in my upper back. (Awaiting results) My GP, two spinal surgeons and my surgeon son have all said that I do not have somatization disorder, yet I saw a psychiatrist (ordered by my barrister because spinal nerve damage doesn't show up on scans and he questioned the fact that I had suffered from depression)) who went through my past medical records and picked out IBS 25 years ago, depression after a shunt was placed in my inner ear for menieres disease 15 years ago, depression after my marriage breakup eleven years ago, post viral syndrome after a flu jab seven years ago. I am so confused. Who do I believe? The stress is getting to me, but my GP has said that I am not depressed and to take no notice of the legal people (My supportive local authority have already admitted liability for having a faulty ladder in my school resulting in me not being able to work any more.) The orthopaedic surgeon has said that I have a right to be free from pain, and he could help me because he believes the pain is definitely not somatization. On the other hand, do I ask to see a psychiatrist and see if he can achieve relieving me from pain and then risk being labelled as having somatization on my medical records? I just want to be free from pain, and know the cause of it.
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