Back Pain Support Group
Back pain is one of the most common reasons people seek medical care. In fact, about 3 in 4 adults will experience back pain during their lifetime! The term back pain includes pain affecting the neck, midback and low back. Acute back pain may begin suddenly with intense pain but typically lasts fewer than three months. Usually, chronic back pain is persistent, steady, and...
It's been almost 4 weeks since my Epidural Steroid Injection. So far, I regret that choice to my very core. Besides the constant benadryl b/c of breaking out in rashes, my skin burning, etc... I have a few issues that aren't going away.
My back is getting more and more stiff. I am starting to wonder about this b/c it's still not going away. Benadryl does help some but now I am waking up stiff and during the day it feels like someone took a steel rod and zip tied it to my spine. It's like I can barely move.
The other thing is, my legs still feel like led(sp?). I will be walking along doing fine and suddenly it feels like I hit a wall of Jell-O with my legs... rushing at me at 100mph. I can barely lift my legs, I can't get my foot off the floor, it takes SO much effort to walk. And then my muscles hurt. Not a "oh I just did exercise" hurt. It's a sharp and throbbing pain through my muscles kind of hurt.
The other day it took my ALL DAY to clean my kitchen. Wash dishes, clear the counter, wash the table and stove top, sweep the floor and make tea. Literally. All day long! I had to work in rounds (okay, I was doing laundry in there too... two loads).
PLEASE tell me this will get better. I am going to have to hire maid at this rate :( I can barely function to keep a clean house. My kids help, luckily, but I don't think it's fair for them to clean the whole house by themselves.
My back is getting more and more stiff. I am starting to wonder about this b/c it's still not going away. Benadryl does help some but now I am waking up stiff and during the day it feels like someone took a steel rod and zip tied it to my spine. It's like I can barely move.
The other thing is, my legs still feel like led(sp?). I will be walking along doing fine and suddenly it feels like I hit a wall of Jell-O with my legs... rushing at me at 100mph. I can barely lift my legs, I can't get my foot off the floor, it takes SO much effort to walk. And then my muscles hurt. Not a "oh I just did exercise" hurt. It's a sharp and throbbing pain through my muscles kind of hurt.
The other day it took my ALL DAY to clean my kitchen. Wash dishes, clear the counter, wash the table and stove top, sweep the floor and make tea. Literally. All day long! I had to work in rounds (okay, I was doing laundry in there too... two loads).
PLEASE tell me this will get better. I am going to have to hire maid at this rate :( I can barely function to keep a clean house. My kids help, luckily, but I don't think it's fair for them to clean the whole house by themselves.
the second one wasn't as bad, it did work again I got the knee flare up it did help the pain for about 3 weeks but man o man when the pain came back it was way worse than before I had the injection I lived in hell for 3 weeks after.. so now Im refusing all injections, I am trying out the chiropractor with no manual manipulations I won't let him and he won't do it anyways because my back is bad, even he says I would benefit from surgery and that he is not sure he can help me..
it is so frustrating, I have been like this for 2 yrs and it is not getting better in fact it is getting worse and over the last 6 months I have had problems with my bladder and bowels yet nobody wants to help, because my case won't further their careers that is what it feels like.
Guess they are going to keep trying until I am in a wheel chair? I really wish the system wasn't so anti-patient.
I hope you do find treatment that works. I have a TEN machine thats seems to distract me from feeling the pain. Otherwise I havent found anything that really helps.
Anyway at least I can ralate... I've been told thT it can't be the injection as well... Hmmm?
Maybe others have had the same or a close experience???
Take care!
-kay
There are very serious risks to these epidurals and from my experience and from what I have been told doctors give these things things out like candy and really down play the serious risks involved. Myself and many people that I have talked to and met in the hospital and physical therapy, developed spinal fluid leaks from these shots which required a major surgery to repair. I now have permanent nerve damage in y back from these shots called arachnoiditis.
This a very old thread (started in 2011) so it is unlikely that any of the members of this thread are still on DS.