Monday, February 13, 2012
Elliot
  • Elliot is in Chronic Spain Pain and my life is very limited.
  • Bio: I have a College Degree in Pharmacology and Biology.
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HEALTH INTERESTS:

Osteoarthritis,  Osteoporosis,  Degenerated Joint Disease (DJD),  Degenerated Disk Disease ( DDD) and Chronic Spine Pain,  22 spine surgeries,  and disabled since 1994.

DRUGS I AM TAKING:

NSAIDS like the suggestions below are garbage for me,  I take Flexeril 10mg. QID,  Valium 10mg. QID,  Boniva 150mg. 1 q /month.,  Neurontin 600mg. TID,  Ambien C.R. 12.5mg. 1 qhs.,  or Restoril 30mg.,  1 qhs.,  Most are generic and do not meet the 20 % difference in bioavailability in my opinion. Plus,  my AARP Part D does NOT cover any type of Benzodiazepine class.

ABOUT ME:

Well where do I start, I was in a terrible MVA December 4th, 1977. After sitting in the passenger seat with NO seat-belts (The car only had lap belts) it was an old Mercury and thank G-D it was a big car, but my old friend flipped the car 3-times front-over-rear.It was a beautiful Sunday afternoon, and cool outside. ALL I remember is the car fish-tailing then going straight off the road. We were doing over 120mph. The actual frame of the car was bent and totaled. I am lucky to be alive. We just finished putting in new speakers and a stereo in my friends old (NEW) car. As I was stuck between the front seat and the roof I finally open my eyes, since I was knocked out for a few minutes, the radio still playing, and my other friend was out of the car and screaming at me to get out, that the car was going to blow-up. Thank G-d it did not, but I was very lucky first to be alive, second, I was in shock from a laceration to my right-side of my head and a tear-like laceration to my knee where I put a hole in the dash-board. It was still, not ALL plastic like today cars. I did not know about those injuries till later. All I felt was a stabbing like or very excruciating sharp pain in my Thoracic level of my spine. I told my friend to not move me, that I think I broke my spine. After awhile the police, fire department and ambulance finally showed up. They used the jaws of life to get me out of the vehicle onto a back board and tried to get my vital signs,but it was to difficult? My two other friends had very mild problems that just took awhile to get over the pulled muscles. In my case, when the blood went down my face I asked my friend what is wrong with my head and the same for my leg. I spent the next 9 hours in the E.R. department begging for pain medicine, but they thought and had to rule out for a head concussion.After that I recieved medication and antibiotics. Now you know whaat started my path to a terrible, painful spine all the time. In college, I got into lifting weight's three times per week and was very active in some sports. I then started having really bad spinal muscle spasms that put me on the floor of my frat. room. This is what started my journey to a Othpaedic Surgeon, then to a Neurosurgeon. They both knew I had a herniated disks (two of them)in my Thoracic spine. But in 1978 I was young and they only gave me differennt kinds of NSAIDS. I have had them ALL with no help for the pain. I actually had to leave college for a year to get my spine a real work-up: CT Scans, MRI Scans, Myelograms, Regular x-rays, and many epidural puntures. This is how I now have bilateral lumbar Adhesive Arachnoiditis. I have had two Medtronic SychroMedic Spinal Infusion Pumps for pain control. That was good for many years, except when things went wrong like the catheter pulling apart (another surgery to fix the plumbing) Then I had a Menigeal Granuloma grow on the end of my catheter and on my spinal cord in the thoracic region. It was the first time, my neurosurgeon called me into her office with my father and said I need surgery ASAP - within next two weeks. I was scared, but felt it was going to be o.k. She actually had another Neurosurgeon assist her that I had seen awhile before. He was very intelligent, and loved to do brain surgery. Spine surgery was not his main specialty even though he was trained very well and went to John Hopkins Medical school.

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