IVE BEEN FIGHTING BACK PAIN AS LONG AS I CAN REMEBER EVEN AS A CHILD IDE HAVE BOUT WITH IT AND THEN THEYED GO AWAY BUT ON AND OFF THROUGH OUT LIFE UNTIL THIS LAST EPISODE IT STARTED ALMOST THREE YEARS AGO AND WHEN IT ATARTED AT FIRST I THOUGHT A IT WILL GO AWAY BUT IT KEPT GETTING WORSE TILL I COULDNT GET OUT OF BED SO I FINALLY WENT TO A CHIROPRACTOR WHO TRIED TO ADJUST AND MASSAGE TO NO PREVAIL FINALLY HE ASKED IF I HAD HAD A RECENT MRI ? AND I GOT HI, A COPY OF IT HE SAID HE WOULDNT DO ANYMORE ADJUSTING JUST PYSC, THERAPY THAT MY SPINE WAS A MESS I ALL TOGETHER HAVE 6 HERNIATED DISC TOP TWO IN MY NECK, TWO IN THE CENTER NEXT TO THE BEND IN MY SOINE AND TWO AT THE BOTTOM, AND I REALLY SHOULD GET A SECOND OPPINION. SO I WENT TO SEE A SURGEON AND HE SAID I WAS TO YOUNG FOR SURGERY LETS TRY SOME OTHER OPTIONS SO I STARTED A PAIN MANEGMENT CLINIC THAT STARTED EPIDURALS INJECTIONS,(NO PAIN MEDS WOULD THEY GIVE ME) SO I WENT FOR A TOTAL OF EIGHT EPIDURALS, SPINAL BLOCKS OR FACET JOINT
AND NONE OF THEM HELPED I HAD ALL OF THESE IN A 14 MONTH PERIOD, AT THIS POINT IVE CHANGED PAIN MANGEMENT DOCTORS TO ONE THAT WOULD AT LEAST GIVE ME SOMETHING FOR PAIN SEEING HOW THE INJACTIONS WERENT HELPING.
AFTER GOING THROUGH ALL THIS I WENT BACK TO THE SURGEONS ASKING IF THERE WAS ANYTHING ELSE WE COULD DO HE SAID NO JUST TAKE THE MEDS UNTILL YOUR READY TO TRY INJRCTIONS AGAIN(THEY DONT HELP) AT THIS POINT I WANTED A SECOND OPPINION, I CANT IMAGINE BEING TOLD TO LIVE OFF PAIN PILLS.....
SO I WENT TO SEE A NEW DR. AND HE ORDERED A DISCO GRAHM WHICH SCARED ME TO DEATH THEY MADE IT SOUND TERRIBLE BUT IT WASNT THAT BAD IT IMULATED MY PAIN RIGHT AND LEFT LEG TINGLING IN FOOT TAIL BONE PAIN AND GRION PAIN AND SOME THIGH PAIN . AT THIS POINT I ALSO HAD ONE DISC THAT THE PAIN WAS SO FAST MOVING THAT I COULDNT TELL IF IT WAS MY PAIN OR NOT IT WAS LIKE SLAMMING YOUR HAND IN A DOOR IT HURTS REAL BAD BUT IF ASKED TO DESCIBE HOW IT MOVED THROUGH YOPUR BODY YOU COULDNT CAUSE YOU CANT THINK WHEN YOUR LIKE THAT ...
SO AFTER THE TEST I WENT BECK TO SEE THE SURGEON AND HE WAS STILL WORRIED BECAUSE THE WORSE DISC WAS THE ONE I COULDNT IDENTIFY IF IT WAS MY TYPE OF PAIN ALL I KNEW WAS IT HURT SO HE WANTED A SECOND OPPINION SO I WENT TO ANOTHER SURGOEN , HIS REPORT BACK TO MY FIRST DR. WAS FUSION L4,L5, S1
SAYS HE CAN GET RID OF 80% PAIN IN LEGS AND 60% IN MY BACK...
MY QUESTION IS I'M ALWAYS IN PAIN EVERY MOMEMENT OF EVERY DAY SAME DAYS ARE ALOT BETTER THAN OTHERS BUT IVE ACCEPTED THAT PAIN WILL ALWAYS BE PART OF MY LIFE, BUT SINCE THEY DECIDED ON SURGERY IT SEEMS AS THOUGH NY BACK DOEST BOTHER ME AS MUCH AS IT WAS... IS THIS JUST THE FEAR TAKING OVER CONVINCING ME I REALLY DON'T NEED THIS?IM VERY SCARED OF THIS SURGERY AND HAVE FOUGHT ALL MY LIFE (FROM AGE 9 NOT TO HAVE SURGERY) NOT TO HAVE SURGERY! OR COULD THE DYE THEY PUT IN THERE BE CUSIONING THE DISC, AND IT REALLY DOES SEEM BETTER... HELP I AM VERY CONFUSSED