I now have skipped heart beats, palpitations and I feel like I will faint when I am in severe pain. My teeth chatter and I shake. I just learned I have a L4-L5 disc herniation with a tear and low grade stenosis that abuts the L5 nerve root. (reading my MRI results) My back was stuck bent over for 12 hrs 2 months ago. When I clicked back, I went back crooked! Levoscoliosis. I am on heavy duty pain meds (and I still hurt?) I just resigned my position at the fortune 500 company I just started with. I feel I became an agent for nothing. I am starting to get snippy with my family (not like me at all) and I didn't get answers from my doctors. just, here's your perscription. What hapens next? On top of all that I will be loosing my health insurance. AAAAAH. Any helpful sugestions?
2006-09-29 15:37:26 · 5 answers · asked by Red! 2 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Heart Diseases
Sounds like you have two seperate issues, the arrhythmias and the spinal issues, both of them seem to be somewhat complicated and merit attention from specialists, but I can give a bit of a general overview.
First off, your supraventicular tachycardia (SVT). You feel so crappy when it's happening because when you heart is beating 250 times a minute it doesn't have enough time to fill adequately between beats, so you aren't able to pump enough blood out to adequately feed your brain, hence the feeling faint, it's not uncommon to loose consciousness at heart rates that high. This is obviously very serious, and there are many possible causes. It sounds like you've already seen an electrophysiologist (cardiologist who specializes only in the electrical system of the heart) about it if you're had an ablation - some SVTs can be treated by this method, and some cannot, but if your condition persists, then you need to go back. I can't emphasize enough that this is dangerous, you run the risk of syncope (fainting) which can be very dangerous if it happens at the wrong time.
As for the pain and the spinal conditions, that's also tricky. Chronic pain is one area that we as doctors don't do such a great job with, and a story like yours where a patient is on relatively high dose opiate analgesics without adequate relief is somewhat common. It sounds like you don't like your doctor very much (just hands you a prescription without time to talk) though sadly, in response to the need to see many patients daily in order to make enough money to keep a practice open many doctors have become this way. There are doctors who specialize in pain relief, they are usually neurologists or anaesthesiologists, and if you cannot get relief from treatment of the cause, then you can try asking your doctor for a referral to a pain specialist and maybe he can help you get on a better regimen
2006-09-29 23:15:38 · answer #1 · answered by The Doc 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No specialist here but you are talking about two different things so it very confusing. One is cardiac and the other spinal. One has little to do with the other. I suggest you get on disability for some emergency type medical insurance and seek professional advice.
You might need something like a spinal fusion.
2006-09-29 22:42:47 · answer #2 · answered by Medical Teacher 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you need chronic pain management by non narcotics like amitriptyline, lyrica, cymbalta etc, then you need an electrophysiologist if heart rate problems recur, you may need a back surgeon to fix the spinal stenosis, what else can I answer, good luck
2006-09-29 22:41:35 · answer #3 · answered by HK3738 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe slow up on the caffeine intake?
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2006-09-29 22:44:10 · answer #5 · answered by tanker just 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋