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@monicaboc I really feel for you. You are not alone in your pain. I can relate...
You are not alone in your pain. ... I did have lumbar surgery since standing ... movement is limited (also had cervical spinal ... myelopathy compression injury and surgeries ... through each day and help me cope with chronic
I found this online: onservative therapy includes heat, ice, scrotal elevation, antibiotics, analgesics, NSAIDs, antidepressants (doxepin...
blockers in the dorsal horn of the spinal ... over 60% of patients with idiopathic chronic ... effective in 85% of patients with chronic ... and quality of life scores for chronic ... challenging due to body habitus or prior surgery
Support Group: Chronic Pain
Posted: Jul 18, 2025
@megroberts I would recommend pushing for an orthopedic spine specialist to get a lumbar spine MRI...
For example, I have spinal stenosis, ... Surgery may be required as a last resort ... /depression due to chronic pain can ... A psychologist specializing in chronic ... pain patients can also help.
Support Group: Chronic Pain
Posted: Jun 18, 2025
I have been in chronic pain since 1999. Every day I would rather be sleeping. Had...
I have been in chronic pain since 1999 ... Had two failed back surgery’s. ... Had a spinal cord stimulator. ... Now have my fourth pain pump I am fighting ... ever it takes to stay away from back surgery
Support Group: Chronic Pain
Posted: May 31, 2025
@celia16 I think it depends on what is going on in the spine. Spine specialists and...
, spinal injections, massage, acupuncture ... , pain patches/creams, psychologists ... that specialize in chronic pain, home ... cord, nerve roots, nerves and the pain ... My spinal cord was being compressed
Support Group: Neuropathy
Posted: Apr 11, 2025
My implants and teeth are Zirconium which is a ceramic that does not have metal in...
I had constant pain there like I was ... metals, and since so much of it can be chronic ... surgeons had turned me down because I had pain ... I knew it was caused by spinal cord ... a guarantee that it would cure my pain
Just wanted to add that they also push Gabapentin on spinal stenosis patients. Off-label drugs used...
that they also push Gabapentin on spinal ... I'm a spinal stenosis, chronic pain ... patient, opposed to the surgery I
Support Group: Chronic Pain
Posted: Mar 19, 2025
I was just diagnosed with cervical radiculopathy about 4 months ago and I'm seeking advice on...
." Also, "evidence oof chronic ... read the MRI and saw no issue to the spinal ... me with the EMG results, I was told surgery ... no symptoms, I got a sharp burning pain ... it included periods of significant pain
Support Group: Spine Health
Posted: Feb 17, 2025
I have had 4 cervical spine surgeries in the last 4 years. My first being in...
I have had 4 cervical spine surgeries ... thru the back of the neck. ( Way more painful ... failed fusion at C4, C5-6, C6-7 with spinal ... 2 years and I still have constant pain ... trochanteric joint, and they removed bursa( chronic
@drxtract Hi, there. I am about 4 months post L3-L5 decompression and fusion surgery. I was...
post L3-L5 decompression and fusion surgery ... Before surgery, I had severe central ... disc disease and congenitally narrow spinal ... Post surgery, pain was 11/12 out of ... deal with major depression due to chronic
Support Group: Chronic Pain
Posted: Dec 19, 2024
I am a 69-year-old young man who has chronic back and leg pain. My L5 &...
am a 69-year-old young man who has chronic ... I didn’t want major back surgery so ... a spinal cord stimulator. ... some nerve damage in my bladder & chronic ... anyone had any side effects from a spinal
Support Group: Spine Health
Posted: Dec 14, 2024
@lilyteddy33 I’m so sorry you are dealing with so much physical and emotionally. That is a...
would definitely help you manage your chronic ... I do have chronic pain and osteoarthritis ... I have some permanent spinal cord injury ... residual symptoms from my injured spinal ... I am glad I got the surgery because
Support Group: Neuropathy
Posted: Dec 6, 2024
I'm sorry you're still in pain. In any spinal surgery, surgeons are working around or moving...
I'm sorry you're still in pain ... In any spinal surgery, surgeons are ... moving aside nerve bundles within the spinal ... And if your pain has persisted this ... But chronic pain has a source and an
Posted: Nov 7, 2024
Prior to the recent PMR episode, during years of Chronic lower back pain, including 3 failed...
recent PMR episode, during years of Chronic ... lower back pain, including 3 failed ... surgeries; I studied Cannabis versus ... Since my gift of an Abbott Spinal Stimulator
Posted: Sep 24, 2024
@elizabeth17 I do not have osteoporosis so you will definitely want to take your medications and...
if compressing your spinal cord/nerves ... Compression on spinal cord and nerve ... Surgery may be recommended and spinal ... osteoarthritis and depression from chronic ... pain.
@mombo I have small fiber neuropathy, spinal stenosis and arthritis plus depression due to chronic pain....
mombo I have small fiber neuropathy, spinal ... and arthritis plus depression due to chronic ... pain. ... believe it helped me with perception of pain ... I just had spine surgery 8/2/2024 and
I had total spinal reconstruction for scoliosis and for 17 years I was pain free. six...
I had total spinal reconstruction for ... scoliosis and for 17 years I was pain ... free. six years ago I began to have pain ... and had an EMG and was told I have chronic ... be having a similar problem after surgery
Support Group: Neuropathy
Posted: Aug 17, 2024
I'm new to this group but not pudendal neuralgia. Pain started in 2009. Was told after...
Pain started in 2009. ... and was untreatable short of major surgery ... In 2021 they tacked on chronic pain, ... myofascial pain, sacroiliitis and recently ... infusions and if that doesn't help, spinal
Support Group: Chronic Pain
Posted: Jun 26, 2024
What people like us have been through no one should have to go endure. My medication...
My medication was once changed by a pain ... my diagnosis from this doctor was chronic ... back pain, if you can believe. ... stenosis, because of my "previous surgeries ... because he was trying to put in a spinal
Support Group: Spine Health
Posted: Jan 23, 2020
I have it also. One doctor wanted to implant a pain pump or a stimulator. I...
One doctor wanted to implant a pain ... have had enough scarring from other surgeries ... siad it would help my back fusion (chronic ... lumbar pain) and the arachnoiditis. ... already having the scar tissue in the spinal
Support Group: Spine Health
Posted: Jan 23, 2020