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<blockquote data-quote="504RP" data-source="post: 1812814" data-attributes="member: 40335"><p>Well Greybeard I hate to hear that for you. I am afraid I am going to get news soon from a neurosurgeon telling me there's not much can be done for me.</p><p></p><p>Have a friend who was told about the same thing you were told. The last Neurosurgeon that saw him told him with the problems he has and surgeries that has already been done. There was nothing he could do. Told him about a medical college that was experimenting with implanting some kind of implants in the spine that is controlled with wires coming out of his back. Bothers me just listening to my friend tell me what the surgeon told him about how this experimental implant stuff is supposed to work.</p><p></p><p>From listening to my friends experience's and your story. And some others. Seems like there is a connection that all these people has went through. Starts with their MD setting them up to have an MRI done, then they are referred to a neurologist that sets them up for physiotherapy and shots for pain management. Then if that fails they refer you to a neurosurgeon.</p><p></p><p>I went through most of that myself 2 years ago. Up until they wanted me to do the physical therapy and injections for pain management. At that point my pain would come and go. Lot of muscle spasms and bad cramps, legs on the inside of my thighs felt like someone had run a half inch drill motor with a 3/4 inch wood bit into the inside of my thigh and twist the ligaments wrapping them around the bit. Unimaginable pain, only relief I could get was to climb in a tub of hot water as fast as I could get in it.</p><p></p><p>The muscles above my knee of my right leg up to my waist stayed numb all of the time. Few months later both legs were that way as far as staying numb. Now the numbness symptoms are gone but now I have non stop pain in L4-L5, S1. On a scale of 1-10 it stays a 4 between episodes that goes beyond 10 to hurting so bad I wish I could pass out so that I could stop hurting. Whatever scale you use when that happens it's the maximum number on the pain scale that I reach when I have a cramp episode. You wish you could pass out during those episodes.</p><p></p><p>I had just finished filling out the paperwork for my appointment to see a neurologist August 14th. When read your post. I give and am willing to do physical therapy or injections, whatever they say now.</p><p></p><p>The reason I didn't want to do the physical therapy was because I didn't and don't now think physical will help with what I have going on. Didn't want to have injections for pain management because I wanted to always be aware of how bad my back was getting. Always thought the shots deadening the pain could cause me to do more damage. Sort of like if you was to break your leg and took some kind of pain pills that kept you from feeling the pain and you didn't know your leg was broke. You could tear the muscles, ligaments, nerves and do more damage than you would if you was able to feel the hurting anytime you moved wrong. Thought that would keep you from putting weight on it if it hurts when you do verse putting weight on it because you are numbed up with pain killer and not feeling any pain.</p><p></p><p>Maybe I am looking at it wrong. But I am like you now. Wish now I knew back when I was lifting and pulling on things like I was Superman and indestructible that I would have been thinking along the lines that I was messing myself up. But that ship has done sailed, can't change the past. Can only hope maybe I can salvage what's left.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="504RP, post: 1812814, member: 40335"] Well Greybeard I hate to hear that for you. I am afraid I am going to get news soon from a neurosurgeon telling me there’s not much can be done for me. Have a friend who was told about the same thing you were told. The last Neurosurgeon that saw him told him with the problems he has and surgeries that has already been done. There was nothing he could do. Told him about a medical college that was experimenting with implanting some kind of implants in the spine that is controlled with wires coming out of his back. Bothers me just listening to my friend tell me what the surgeon told him about how this experimental implant stuff is supposed to work. From listening to my friends experience’s and your story. And some others. Seems like there is a connection that all these people has went through. Starts with their MD setting them up to have an MRI done, then they are referred to a neurologist that sets them up for physiotherapy and shots for pain management. Then if that fails they refer you to a neurosurgeon. I went through most of that myself 2 years ago. Up until they wanted me to do the physical therapy and injections for pain management. At that point my pain would come and go. Lot of muscle spasms and bad cramps, legs on the inside of my thighs felt like someone had run a half inch drill motor with a 3/4 inch wood bit into the inside of my thigh and twist the ligaments wrapping them around the bit. Unimaginable pain, only relief I could get was to climb in a tub of hot water as fast as I could get in it. The muscles above my knee of my right leg up to my waist stayed numb all of the time. Few months later both legs were that way as far as staying numb. Now the numbness symptoms are gone but now I have non stop pain in L4-L5, S1. On a scale of 1-10 it stays a 4 between episodes that goes beyond 10 to hurting so bad I wish I could pass out so that I could stop hurting. Whatever scale you use when that happens it’s the maximum number on the pain scale that I reach when I have a cramp episode. You wish you could pass out during those episodes. I had just finished filling out the paperwork for my appointment to see a neurologist August 14th. When read your post. I give and am willing to do physical therapy or injections, whatever they say now. The reason I didn’t want to do the physical therapy was because I didn’t and don’t now think physical will help with what I have going on. Didn’t want to have injections for pain management because I wanted to always be aware of how bad my back was getting. Always thought the shots deadening the pain could cause me to do more damage. Sort of like if you was to break your leg and took some kind of pain pills that kept you from feeling the pain and you didn’t know your leg was broke. You could tear the muscles, ligaments, nerves and do more damage than you would if you was able to feel the hurting anytime you moved wrong. Thought that would keep you from putting weight on it if it hurts when you do verse putting weight on it because you are numbed up with pain killer and not feeling any pain. Maybe I am looking at it wrong. But I am like you now. Wish now I knew back when I was lifting and pulling on things like I was Superman and indestructible that I would have been thinking along the lines that I was messing myself up. But that ship has done sailed, can’t change the past. Can only hope maybe I can salvage what’s left. [/QUOTE]
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