Chronic Pain - All People Who Are Interested In "Fusions"

gatekeeper8558

Just trying to take one day at a time..

posted 02/06/2009, comments (3)

My issue

I've lived with chronic pain for the last 7 years. I broke my neck in a car accident when I was 16, had to have a C5-C6 fusion. To help with the healing the surgeon also implanted a donor bone graph which within 6 months of recovery, began to deteroriate and couldn't figure out why. In the next 2 years after that, I was in a total of 6 car... Read more Chevron

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shmirly

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posted 03/27/2008, comments (7)

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Hi Again...I haven't posted in about 6 weeks. I am home recovering from my pump implantation surgery. Unfortunately, i had a "minor" complication - the dreaded spinal leack headache. And i had to have 2 weeks of vancomycin antibiotics through my port a cath as well (which meant no shower for 2 1/2 weeks) TORTURE!!! I just had... Read more Chevron

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missy

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posted 12/03/2007, comments (24)

My long journey through surgeries to morphine pump

Hi all. I'm new to this site and sure wish I had found it a few years ago.. but am glad I found it now. Betty suggested I share with you all my story in hopes that it may help others and if it can.. then I'm happy to help anyone that may be facing the kind of trials I have had. First, where to begin ? I have had a... Read more Chevron

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L Wickes

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posted 09/16/2007, comments (3)

Grin and Bare It

"Grin and Bare It" by L WickesAs an artist and psychotherapist living with acute and chronic pain. I am struggling with integrating the experiences of having a rare disease (Cushing's) into a life quite unlike the one that I had imagined. Because the disease went... Read more Chevron

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