
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...

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I have been getting ready for a Thanksgiving trip and my back is just killing me! It usually hurts pretty bad but I over worked it today. All this pain reminds me of when I was being evaluated by a doctor when I first hurt my back. He heard everything I said and saw from an MRI that I have disk disease with a protrusion into my nerve and other disks were messes up as well. I was telling him how much PAIN I was in and he looked at me and said "this is a very common problem. I get these complaints all the time." He told me to put ice/heat on it, rest, take Motrin, excercise after I have rested and lose weight. So I have been working on all of those things. My back is worse than it was a year ago when he told me all of that! I got another doctor and I don't think she really cares all that much either. She did send me to a rheumatologist because I also have all over body pain from something else.The point is how do we convey to doctors that this is real debilitating pain. It doesn't make it any better for them to say "it's a common problem" Is that supposed to make it hurt less? I'm sure anyone with this "common problem" are doing anything they can to fix it. Maybe it's me. Maybe I don't properly get across how horrible this is! That living like this isn't living at all! Have any of you had a doctor or specialists that treated you like your pain is no big deal? Thanks Jen
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I've had doctots tell me move, don't move, therapy, no therapy, pain meds, patches, TENS units~you name it we have tried it. The only thing we haven't done is an internal unit either tens or pump. and guess who is stopping that from being a possibilty~the lovely insurance agency, of course!They told me part of my problem is degenerative and we all know what that means. Now, when I go on to see my doc~who I believe os one of the good guys; he tells me my pain is getting worse because I'm deconditioned and I need to change my perception!!! He just gave me 2 epidurals,(I have had appx 15 over the years) they truly did nothing.So there will not be a third thid time. I swim when I can which besides the narcotics is the only thing that gives me temporary relief. I've lost 50 lbs and am trying to lose more. I'm a good little soldier.
But every month when I go to se him for my rx renewals ~ he just keeps telling me to keep my spirits up and pats me on the head ~like a child. He has given up on me.
Iy is humiliating because a part of me is altered, gone forever that I will never get back. It's affected my mental health, my relationshiiiips, my ability to work and I rarely drive due to the meds.
And the docs wonder why I am depressed???
I swear I truly don't know if they are all thinking they know what is really happening to us; or are simply clueless to the failures in their treatments?
What I do know is that is changes every aspect of your life and the docs~good and bad; caring or all business know very little about the real way we live in pain each day.And they have no right to be condescending to anyone of us.
Good luck to you on your journey. Try to enjoy the good days and muddle through the bad. And never, NEVER let any doctor, therapist or therapist make you feel it;s something you can contril.
God bless.
Hugs & God bless
Lisa
on the 2 opin, i do have nerve damage and the ddd just psuh me away and act like i craxy.
b/c i have ddd and i have spinal stestensis. and nerve damage. i hope you the best.
I came across your mesg, and I would like to say that not all doctors are like that.
For your disc problem, how sever is the degeneration? and at which location? Other than pain, any numbness and weakness in your legs? If you starts to experience sharp shooting pain and numbness, or even weakness, please seek help asap. I believe there are still a lot of responsible docs out there.