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Hi @virtuous! I'd like to share some words of hope for your back pain and digestive...
share some words of hope for your back ... a colon blockage and had emergency surgery ... However, the pain always came back so ... ended up having a disk fusion at the L3 ... /4 level.
Support Group: Spine Health
Posted: Oct 20, 2016
To expand a bit (and I am finding context is everything): I am 76 and formerly...
4 times per week Pilates classes, foam ... showed scoliosis, degeneration of L4 ... I went back to my physiatrist to check ... Surgery was July 18. ... only radiculopathy and little or no back
Support Group: Spine Health
Posted: Aug 13, 2023
Hay Kelli or KrazySkiBunnie I know go ahead and laugh. I'm a chronic pain person. Oct...
I had a collapsed L5-S1 with 3 cracked ... C-section scar (hope he put my liver back ... 🙃lol) and did my $423,000 surgery ... The last 3 yrs ive had several septic ... infections other places and died 4x
Support Group: Chronic Pain
Posted: Jul 7, 2025
@dande I appreciate your sharing so much of what is and has been going on with...
it is much better and down to the 3- ... 4 level. ... 3 a day (24 hours) to 2 a day now. ... right side that may require spinal surgery ... spondylitis, and herniated disks at L4
Support Group: Chronic Pain
Posted: Apr 10, 2017
Also, I might add that a few years ago they thought it may have morphed into...
I had Back problems and hips wee deteriorated ... replaced and a laminectomy and fusion of L ... 4-5 back surgery and it has helped the ... I take the usual 2 daily with 3 taken
I’ve had 3 CT’s since problem started 2024. I’ve seen Ortho Surgeon and Neurologist neither had...
I’ve had 3 CT’s since problem started ... seen type injury several times after back ... surgery and some ablations. ... every morning which helped with low back ... 4 minutes or stand for any amount of
Support Group: Spine Health
Posted: Feb 3 8:49pm
Hello @walleyebob. My husband and sons would like your moniker as they are frequent walleye fishermen...
Diagnosed in 2019, he was on 3-4 month ... got tired of the constant scopes and surgeries ... still cancer free and glad he did the surgery ... performs the cystos, and arranges further surgery ... maintenance infusions, the tumors started back
@ktrammell1 It's the pits when you have to wait. My surgeon told my husband I must...
I had a back fusion from T-10 to t-5 ... I had stenosis at L4 & 5. ... I had to wait 3 months to get into him ... My doctor said I needed the surgery ... in my back, but it was a a 9 hour surgery
Support Group: Spine Health
Posted: Aug 10, 2020
I can’t tell you how much I appreciate you responding back. So sorry to hear about...
how much I appreciate you responding back ... 4 til-5 but when I went unexpectedly ... it went from l-4 and l-5 to T-10 to ... on me back in 2006 for two ruptured ... I had my usual 3 week, 3 months, 6 months
Support Group: Chronic Pain
Posted: Apr 10, 2024
CHAPTER 2 Post Surgery - Hydrocodone was prescribed by surgeon Dr. P for 3 prescriptions and...
P for 3 prescriptions and then ORDERED ... 33 years ago on Tuesday, September 4, ... Postal Service Neuromas injury (9/4/ ... is simply wrong for him to turn his back ... During the last 3 years, I have systematically
It sounds like you have been through a lot, and I can truly empathize with the...
I have already had spinal fusion surgery ... at L4-L5, which has not healed properly ... such a long time, and receiving 2/3 ... My labs came back showing many tests ... Take back control of your health and
Support Group: Just Want to Talk
Posted: Sep 6, 2024
Hi Everyone, how are you? I have been quiet for a while, but I have been...
suffering atrocious pain since his surgery ... C6, C6-C7, C7-T1 and Right Approach L4 ... I have been to hospital ED 3 times in ... the last 4 weeks. ... I have checked for infection 3 times
Support Group: Spine Health
Posted: Oct 28, 2023
@mamasitalucita Beautifully said, almost poetic! I was to about 5 doctors before I found one that...
At that point, surgery wasn't even ... However, when the shots wore off, back ... This is how it was for 3 years. ... Anyway, I had cervical spine surgery ... on L4/5.
Support Group: Fibromyalgia
Posted: May 26, 2018
@linda6101…hey Linda, how’re you feeling today? Back in the mid to late ‘90’s I had a...
in 2000 I had a lumbar fusion from L4 ... At my 3 month follow up I asked the ... My neck now is fused from C3-T1 and ... My first back surgery was when I was ... life flight helicopter twice, in a 3
Support Group: Chronic Pain
Posted: Feb 17 4:51pm
@deccakid You and I have had similar problems. I had surgery 16 years ago at 62....
I had surgery 16 years ago at 62. 3 ... 1/2 years later, it came back and I ... drugs has raised my blood sugar, A1C 5.4 ... Zytiga to Orgovyx and Darolutamide 3 ... ago, I had a metastasis zapped on my L4
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Posted: Mar 29 5:40pm
Sounds like an unbelievable nightmare! I knew when I read half of what you wrote, what...
At L3 L4, L5, you have a major nerve ... My spine surgery gave me my life back ... it should have, but I got my life back ... I approved surgery surgery immediately ... surgery.
Posted: Aug 24, 2024
Hello Slowgo I had an L4-S1 surgery in May of 2020 at Mayo Clinic in Rochester....
Hello Slowgo I had an L4-S1 surgery ... I have had 3 back surgeries, my fusion ... was about the possibility of future back ... It's almost 4 years now since I ... I go 4 or 5 days a week to a local pool
Support Group: Spine Health
Posted: Jan 14, 2024
Hi, Middle of night here. 5 months ago, I had the correct surgery for cauda equina...
here. 5 months ago, I had the correct surgery ... for cauda equina symtoms L4-5 disc ... I've tried going everywhere, 3 ... Today I'm going back to one NP who ... Thank you 4 reading.
Support Group: Chronic Pain
Posted: Jul 15, 2022
Hi! I joined the “couch-bound club” back in June of this year when I fell backwards...
That day was followed by 3 weeks of ... showed a fractured L3 vertebrae. ... That would be 4 to 6 MONTHS!!! ... never watched this much TV in my life. 3 ... , too, had three other major joint surgeries
Support Group: Chronic Pain
Posted: Sep 16, 2025
I was diagnosed April 1, 2023 with adenocarcinoma the the stomach junction at 70 years old,...
junction at 70 years old, and staged T3N0 ... a non event and I actually gained 3 ... your own doctor says it will come back ... And when it does come back, it's ... stage 4 and there's not much you
Support Group: Esophageal Cancer
Posted: Feb 25, 2024