I have been suffering from back pain over 4 yrs the last 2 were really hard and after having back surgury in 2006 I have gotton worse, I have had therpy as well as every pill out there,tryed eveything now my question is how safe is the pain pump?? I just had 2nd trail injection the ...
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Beatingthepain
Tuesday, May 06, 2008 at 04:15 PMre: FUSION CANDIDATES PLEASE READ
angel07
Friday, May 23, 2008 at 05:55 PMIam not sure if you were replying to me, as Iam new well anyways I do agree 100% my back has been cut open as well they told me after my surgury yeas that I had back faulure sndrome as well excuse my spelling I have been tossed all over and feel like a tossed salad no joke they have been putting me through well I cant say it Iam sur you know after 2yrs of pain doctors and everything out there nothing helped I did have all thise shots as well from epuidals faccett blocks now my 2nd pain doctor after a year gives me a trail for the pain pump well 1st one no luck 2nd 1 was good to go. then he sends me to the doc that does that now they have me running all over this test that test gave me a script for a disogram a test and I called today they tell me I have to come in for a talk frist after I have already been there yes the pain is so bad I cry and I dont know how Iam even walking I can tell you its not easy it has really taken a toll on me as well as missing out on my life to be in bed is not a life Iam strongly upset that these doctors did not do anything earlier, after all 4 yrs is a long time the last 2 are and is the worse I get all these werid things lost of feeling in legs. hips hurt they get inflamed back pain so bad cant do anything its one huge circle for me even laying down sitting standing I cant belive it. and all these doctors do is give me this and that do this do that well after telling a close friend of mine over the yrs Why in the world are they not doing any orther tests??? seemed strange to me . well now they are and my friend said go and talk to the pain doc and explain you are going through all that u send me there for the pump which I am not sure myself what to do but it did help me so now i gusse me and the doc will talk again next week I wish you the best of luck Angel
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Beatingthepain
Tuesday, May 06, 2008 at 04:22 PMSorry, have a bit more you should know...
I only learned this just within the last couple months. The scar tissue will eventually heal very well, very thouroughly. So much, in fact, that ultimately, you will lose the ability to walk unless some of it is removed. I am telling the truth, this is what the doctor said to me. The body simply packs more and more into an area which has been traumatized. The remedy? They go in and cut out the bulk of it, loosening up some of the fascia, so you can bend and twist some. Problem is, it grows back again. The body takes about two years of this before more invasive treatments are required.
Sorry to rain on your party, but you really should read up on this from learned sources (more learned than sites like this forum, I am talking about Ortho and Neuro doctor's websites. They publish this information to inform, so use it. Be informed. Please.
And, thank you to the site which allows us to pass along information for the betterment of others. I really appreciate you guys and gals very much.
Brian Stenerson
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Listen, if you can avoid getting cut open the do it. The last thing you want is for the doc to cut through all the muscles and ligaments in your back/throat/ etc. unless they have to.
Unless you are walking around with bone on bone, grinding the nerves to pulp between them, you can still find alternative treatments, like injections. I would go back and undo my surgery, except I was at that bone-on-bone stage, and every day I waited, I ruined more and more of my nerve roots to my lower body.
The injections worked for about oh, I think six months or so, but eventually quit taking away the pain.
Problem: Once they cut into my back, they created scar tissue where it healed together again. Sure the fusion worked great, still pops some, but the musculature over top of it, all of it turned into scar tissue. I heard my doc when they first discovered this phenomenon, called 'failed back syndrome', which doesn't really mean anything. It is a label for "Holy cow, look at that!" I found out after having surgery that this happends to a startaling number of fusion recipients.
My advice: Have them go in from the side if possible, laproscopically. This leaves less trauma to the fascia on top of the surgical site. The incision scar is only about an inch or so long, about six sutures, and little in the way of scar tissue.
I wish you luck.
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