Back Pain ! What do I do ?

Question

I am 29 years young, growing up I was stupid and lifted anything and everything and now I am paying for it and no one cares. I had three herneated discs early 2005 and I started to see my family doctor, and he put me on pain meds and sent me to get an MRI, the discs were really bulging. I then did their 3 shots in my back and that only seem to make it worse. Finally in May of 2005 I was doing something and a disc literally exploded, and I went to my knees and couldnt walk, wife finally took me to a surgeon and He done another MRi and russhed me to surgery the very next morning, I had a disc explode and a piece wrapped around my main nerve cord and had me paralized.
To shorten up this story, surgery went fine, I went home the very next day, felt great for about two months, stopped taking pain meds (they had me on Oxycontin, cause pain was so severe before) now pain again , doctors wont do anything and I dont have insurance anymore, they wont give me pain meds, what do I do?

Answer 1

first of all try ice. Your back is nothing to mess with, ice will help swelling and also inflamation, think of your blood in this way: When it sees an injury the blood gathers up and says I am going to fix it I am going to fix it.... wrong, what it does is gather to the area causing inflamation. when you put ice on it the blood scatters, man I don't want anything to do with that it is cold. That promotes healing. Yours is very serious and taking an anti inflamatory such as ibuprophen is helpful but remember it thins out the blood so if you had to have surgery or cut yourself really bad it will take longer for the blood to clot. Chronic back pain is not fun, I know where you are coming from. Massage helps

Answer 2

Excuse me but your story sounds very fishy. I have had bulging discs, ruptured discs, laminectomies, fusions along with countless procedures and been on total and permanent disability since 1998. While I am not a medical expert, I do know what I am talking about. It also seems strange that the only thing you are asking for is pain meds. You didn't ask to have the problem, whatever it might be, be fixed.

Your story starts early 2005. If your area is anythiong like mine it took two weeks before you got in to see a specialist, another two weeks to schedule an MRI, at least one week to get final reading and report. another two to schedule the epidural/steroid shots and two weeks between the shots, well we are up to at least three months. Then you has a disc EXPLODE in May. To know that another MRI would have been required, when was that? A piece of disc material might press against a nerve, but they don't wrap around anything. The pressure might cause some pain, it might cause some numbness, it might cause some neurological problems such as drop foot, but it doesn't parallize.
After surgery you are normally placed on percocet or other short acting drug since the pain is acute, not chronic. If they put you on Oxycontin you should sue since that is contraindicated.

If you are hurting again from the surgery, by the way, what was the surgery. Laminectomy, hemi-laminectomy, fusion BAK, cage, with or without instrumentation, pedicle screws????
I am sure they did more tests, MRI, CT scan, discograph, other. What were the results. You don't normally go from no pain where you can stop a medication, that shouldn't have been prescribed at all, to extreme pain without a cause. What were the test results?

Answer 3

Get a strong round magnet. Put it below the pain site in such a way that South pole touches the pain site. It can solve your problem. Remove the magnet after 30 mins. Keep 10 hrs gap between two treatments. Preserve magnet on wooden plank.
If there is a skilled acupuncturist approach him, he is the only person to solve this problem.

Answer 4

I so feel for you. Oxy's can get you physically hooked in 3 days. I'm in a methadone clinic due to those and other pills, etc. I've been on it for almost 2 years and was on it 3 years ago for 2 years. I also went to a suboxone clinic and that was great but got tossed due to xanax in my system. What I'm saying is you're physically hooked now and you can either suffer through it cold turkey or get into a program. If you want details-e-mail me. good luck.

Answer 5

This could be because of muscle fatigue or dehydration. Try exercising all parts of your body. It also sometimes is due to disuse atrophy. Consult a doctor if it persists. You can also look for information in the web. I found this website very useful. http://aches.in/cramps.html

Answer 6

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