Back Pain Support Group

Recently I have been experiencing worsening pain due to a car accident from three years ago. I was hopeful that six months of PT after the accident would have been enough but now I can feel that something is wrong. Although I cannot begin to understand or comprehend massive spinal damage I know how debilitating and life draining pain can be. My father... Agh, I almost cry every time I think about and try to place myself in his position. My mom and brother think that he is just a lazy, worthless man but this is simply not true. He used to be a electronic engineer working over eighty hours a week in his prime back around 1988-1989. The next year he was involved in an experimental drug trial that was supposed to chelate mercury out of his fillings and into his urine for later excretion. Instead, the mercury that was bound to the chelator bound to his nervous tissue in his brain and body. Additionally, many protiens were denatured. As a result, he lost well over eighty pounds and has had to battle for life. He started to recover through his own research and drug therapies around 2000 but then we were involved in terrible car accident. The airbag deployed late so he hit his head on the steering wheel and then was hit back into his seat by the air bag. I cannot remember all of the damage it caused to his back and body but on top of all his previous medical problems its nearly too much for the man to take. There is so much more here than I could explain in the next five minutes but I try so hard to understand what you guys are going through. I want to do ANYTHING to help and remove pain but I cannot. I just tell my dad that I am there for him, no matter what. I am also here if you need to talk more, but please please please just try to make it one more second, or minute, or hour, or day. I am sure there are other members here too that are willing to help and support you. Just somehow try to know that at the very least I am here for you and would do anything for my father or anyone else with severe chronic pain to get rid of it.

If ice, heat, medications do not take care of your pain, you have the right to go to an ER and get treated there....

I'm sorry to hear about your pain.

I'm really new to this group but I have a pinched nerve (among other things in the lower lumbar region) I prop couch pillows under my legs as I was laying on my back. I was told by a doctor it makes the vertebrae separate and release pressure off the nerve - sometimes it helps sometimes it doesn't. Though I have been hurt for several years (1997) , this year I started to move my shoulders one at a time further away from my waist while had my legs at the 45 degree angle with the pillows. Twice now it has moved it and lessened the misery.

Also for whatever reason, thermacare heat pads that you can fasten around your waist or put on your neck seem to "conform" better for me to the area and help more as far as heat goes.

Of course then I just have days where nothing helps and I want to die...usually runs in a 3 days spell of agony, agony, agony and then maybe not so bad.

but yeah, if you're that miserable head to the ER. Good luck!

retro,
I totally get the entire story. People not believing him all of it. I do know what constant pain is like, and have so many drugs to take for it, but they just don't kill the pain. It wears on you, and your body can't take it all the time, he does need to go to the ER, they can give him something to help him.

Also I would get his doc to refer him to a pain Management Clinic, as there they will be able to help him so much more with better medications.

Don't get me wrong, if I was not on what I am on at present, I would just pass out from the pain, it's just that my pain is so bad the stuff seems like it is not working, but it is doing something.

Take care, and thank you for you wonderful post.

Debbie

Hey,
i am so sorry, and answered the wrong post,
yes get yourself to the ER, do not allow this for yourself. Call a cab if you have no one to take you, just get there ASAP!

I know what your going through!

Debbie

yes go to the ER.

I hope you went to the ER. I understand your pain and sometimes nothing helps....I just hang on knowing that it will pass in time, however that does not mean that I handle it well, just ask my closest friends ! I hope you have found some relief..take care

Where are you and what are you gonna do? We all need to know your okay. Please respond soon. I know how you feel I take 60 mg morphine twice a day 30mg once a day and 3 or 4 roxycodone 15mg a day and 95% of the time it just takes the edge off. I want to curl up in a corner and die. I've thought about taking the whole bottle and then just lay down forever because it hurts so bad. But I don't have that right, I have family that would be devastated. They need me so I can be selfish and take my life away from them. Seek help talk to friends, family and us. We all know what pain can make us do or think about doing. Choose life today. One day at a time.

I'll chime in on the ER thing too. I was in a bad car accident a month ago & now my spine is messed up. I now understand the pain & sometimes it's unbearable, you don't even want to exist! I don't know what painkillers you've tried, but have you used the Fentanyl patch? I've found that to be the only relief I've had yet other than ER meds.

i am still here but have been in hospital i was so close to ending my life i had to take extrs to get there so i didnt make sence to them but when i came round later on and atfer readin my file they helped me alot thank you for the support i still trouble