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Jul 02, 2008 07:06PM
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Well, today is the day before my procedure. I am having a discogram done tomorrow morning. Thank goodness I'm the first procedure in the morning. I'm scared to death. It makes me so nervous when working with the spine. The discs in my back are messed up. I had gone through physical therapy for traction and all that did was make it worse. Everytime I had therapy and they started the traction, my legs would tingle and sharp pains would go down my legs and then go numb. Why, who knows. My doctors were talking about a disc transplant, so that I won't loose the flexability in my lumbar area. And as for the bulged discs, my doctor is talking about going in and removing what fluid is left in my disc and try to get the disc back into place. I had a NIS (nerve induction study) done on my legs and the whole left side showed significant damage. I just pray that I will have a positive out come from all of this. I would love to get off of my meds or atleast decrease the dosage. I am on Lyrica and Voltaren and the swelling from the Lyrica is unreal!! I have not been able to wear my wedding rings. At one point, I had to literely cut off my shoes. I have called the information line about Lyrica and discussed these issues with my doctor and found that "those patents who take 300 mg or more of Lyrica, 1/3 of the patents exprence swelling and weight gain". And I guess that I fall into that 1/3 percent. I hate this!! I have put on an easy 50 pounds since taking Lyrica. I know that I have alot of water weight gain and now I will talk to my doctor about taking lasik's. I know that causes a potassium decrease, but oh well. ... there's something for that too. I just wanna fix my 2 blown out disc's and my seriously bulded discs!
As I go back and read what I have wrote, WOW, that's alot of complaining. But I do have to say, in the last 10 years, I have had over 15 surgery's, and all I want is to live my next 10 years pain free... well, close to it anyways.
As I go back and read what I have wrote, WOW, that's alot of complaining. But I do have to say, in the last 10 years, I have had over 15 surgery's, and all I want is to live my next 10 years pain free... well, close to it anyways.
Hi, I am so sorry you are going through this. 15 surgeries! And you are young! I'm 52 and I have neck problems, with two herniated discs, and now I am starting to get low back problems. I'm not sure what it is, it could be sciatica or some more herniated discs or something else. I haven't had an MRI yet. I almost don't want to get one because it's just going to be bad news! My knees are a mess too, hurt all the time. But you are still so young to have to deal with this with little children also.
It's interesting what you said about Lyrica. I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia along with my osteoarthritis, and the medicine the only real medicine for FM is Lyrica. However, they are not recommending it to me because I am already 30 lbs. overweight and I have High blood pressure. Do you feel that the Lyrica helps your pain?
Good luck tomorrow. I also agree with you about the physical therapy. I have had it for my neck twice and my wrist and elbow, and it ALWAYS creates more pain.
Cindy from NJ
It's interesting what you said about Lyrica. I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia along with my osteoarthritis, and the medicine the only real medicine for FM is Lyrica. However, they are not recommending it to me because I am already 30 lbs. overweight and I have High blood pressure. Do you feel that the Lyrica helps your pain?
Good luck tomorrow. I also agree with you about the physical therapy. I have had it for my neck twice and my wrist and elbow, and it ALWAYS creates more pain.
Cindy from NJ
I really do not want to scare you I just want you to be prepared, I had a disc o gram done and when they put the dye in one of my disc that was bad OH WOW I about jumped ten foot. It is only for a few seconds when they take the dye back out it is fine No more pain than your normally in. I thought I was having the procedure where they go in and replace some fluid in the disc so the bones don't rub together but got the disco gram. I had to have this first then the other one I have no idea what its called (terrible memory). My doc gave me some relaxing meds to calm me before hand, just a little but it helped. Good luck, let us know how it goes. Again I am not wanting to scare you it really is only a second or two and its over.
Hello. Well, I went today for the discogram and let me tell you... I would rather go back into labor with my children! But atleast I know know what and where the problem is. Yes, I am young... but it is so hard for me to keep up with my kids because of this. I only work part time and that is a struggle. ( one day a week ) As for the Lyrica, I was about 30 pounds over weight when I started it. And I also have FM and osteoarthritis in my back. Yes, Lyrica does help alot with my pain, but for all of my problems, it's not enough. And I can't take higher dosage because the Lyrica still makes me dizzy and I dont like that feeling when I have a 6 and a 4 year old to take care of. As for the discogram, I did come up off the table. My doctor told me that I shouldn't feel the needle going into my disc. Yeah right. I cried the whole time. I was given medicine to calm me down, but they gave it to my in my IV 3 times. As for the outcome of my discogram, 3 disc's are completely blown out both sides and 1 bulged disc. And I also found out that as for my L5-S1 disc, it is not there. The doctor said that he has never seen that before. Why it's like that, he don't know, he said that I must of been born like that. Well, thank you for all of your responses, but I am very tired from my pain medication that I am on and I need to lay down with ice again. Thanks!
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