back pain, Candy

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Hi Chris and everyone else. I will ditto everything that has been said

about the pain etc., caused from the sciatic nerve. I, too, had to have

back surgery for a ruptured disc. The pain down my leg was to a point I

couldn't even walk. Well, the first surgery was a failed surgery. The

first doctor (and he doesn 't deserve to be called a doctor) wouldn't

believe me when I said something was wrong. So I went to the neck and back

clinic in Minneapolis, taking all the x-rays, mri's, etc., and the doctor I

saw showed me where my back had fractured!!!! A second surgery was

performed and big honken screws on both sides of my spine were used to use

for the fusion. Talk about pain. To make a long story short, the screws on

the right side let loose so I had to go through yet another surgery where as

they went in through the back to take out the faulty screws, and then went

through the front to put in cylinders (rods). That totaled to be three

surgeries in four months. I do have permanent nerve damage in my right leg

and down into my foot. I sure hope Candy's friend gets help fast because it

will only get worse with more damage. It still hasn't stopped me from doing

what I want to do even though I suffer for it the next day. Just don't give

in too easy. Seventy-four and still rockin!!!

 

Blessings and love,

Effie

 

 

 

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>I truly hope that she gets better Candy. If she has pain that is this bad

>tho, I would guess that she has impinged a nerve somewhere. There is

>*nothing* in this world that can touch nerve pain. I know this first hand

> I had a fusion done several years ago and ooops, the Dr left a chunk of

>disc in my spine that should have not been there. His explanation was that

>it must have gotten lodged up against the sciatic nerve and that was what

>was causing all of my horrific pain. IMO.....it was way more than

>that. Had to have 2nd surgery 5 weeks later to get that chunk of disc

>out......I felt 100% better. I had surgery late in the afternoon and

>because I react strangely to morphine, I was up that entire evening My

>Dr signed me out at 7am that next morning. Not usual for any kind of

>invasive procedure like that. Please don't let your friend stay in this

>kind of pain for too long. My pain got to the point of suicidal

>thoughts. Not only that, but the longer she leaves that nerve impinged,

>the more damage it is doing. Let me tell you how irreversible nerve damage

>is! My entire left leg is basically " dead " and I still get what some might

>call *phantom pain*. This is JMO, but she should seek out a reputable

>Neurosurgeon......an Orthopedic Dr did mine.....and it was painfully

>obvious, with all of the nerve damage that he caused. If she would like to

>email me personally, I'd be happy to share what info I now know with her

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>Chris Kelly

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