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Excruciating chronic left side neck pain plus lumbar issues
Spine Health | Last Active: Nov 18, 2023 | Replies (360)Comment receiving replies
My last 4 and half months with extreme cervical and lumbar pain
As my body is waking up from the drugs I am getting a strong pain feeling going down the sides of my neck that also feels numb and unconnected to the rest of the spine and the body. It is weird. I am awake, but I feel distant from my inner self. The depression is high. I am not enjoying life. The drugs are modifying my personality. It is an awful moment of life to live like this without a goal and a solution to my issues yet.
I tried to make an appointment with another neurosurgeon, but I will have to wait till the end of March. My current doctors have been informed but the response is slow.
I get told that, if the pain is too high, to go to hospital.
The last 2 times that I went to the hospital emergency department I was given a morphine shot and sent home the next day.
The public hospital, the doctors are not really concerned with your issues and in the meantime my body is deteriorating. I have constant neck, lumbar, shoulders and arm pain. The arms are getting weaker.
The system is about money and has abandoned me in the middle of the ocean with no way of being rescued.
I am sure that if I were a politician, an important person I would have been rescued by now.
No one cares.
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Alfred, people care or we wouldn't respond. When I read your August MRI, I too am perplexed as your drs. Finding the focal pain generator is very important before they recommend any surgery.The medical people care, it's just they seem to lack urgency because they know it takes time to receed. Nerve inflammation takes time to heal and the pain to me is the worst of all types of pain. But one thing I learned is that conservative care is the best pursuit and with the right level of cortisone orally and proper placed injections it can be tamed. You may have to take some oxycontin and gabapentin and have shots several times over a year. BUT it way better than doing surgery. Many who have had spine surgeries regret it. One fusion leads to another fusion, loose hardware, arachnodosis, all kinds of issues. I have 5 cervical 5 lumbar and 2 thoracis levels with troubles. I have been fighting chronic dorsal nerve root pain at L4 from a lumber laminectomy in 1998. As queen of pain, I know the cervical nerve pain especially when its numb all the way down you arm and you cant even lift your arm and your finger and numb, can drive you crazy, I will take the conservative path everytime, steroids and oxy toll it recedes.. But it takes lots of time and patience. I dont golf or play tennis anymore, but can occasionally ride a bike and love nature walks. The point is ,you find a way to adapt. Also, find a PT who does neuromodulation and cold lasar, they really help!. And remeber the ICE!!! ICE ,ICE!!
your friend JM1