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...
Hello my friends, it's been a while since I came to visit this group. I'm usually on the alcoholism groups because I must take meds for pain daily and so I must keep vigilant with my sobriety or I won't be visiting any groups!! Any who.... the doc at my pain clinic wants to do this Radio Frequency Lesioning after one more of the numbing/steroid injections on the lower right lumbar and sciatica stuff. This is the beginning of my 8th yr of chronic (daily) lower lumbar pain, although I suffered intermittently for decades before the chronic stuff began. I have all the wonderful problems from severe arthritis, bone on bone discs with nerves squished and squashed with no room for them anymore, stenosis, etc.Most chronic is in the lower lumbar from hereditary, disabling, degenerative disc disease, and the arthritis is hereditary too. But also, I injured the lower lumbar tendons, ligaments, and muscles back when I was 24 yrs old, and I just turned 50 this last April.
I have a severe PTSD reaction when I must lay on the table and allow them to put needles in my spine. This reaction is from my mom's unnecessary sudden death when I was 16 yrs old from complications from her spinal surgery. It really is more than an anxiety attack. I am really not okay with these procedures and just want to take the meds cause they work just fine and if the day comes that I cannot walk then lets look at this other stuff. Well we all know with the way the docs and the feds and all the trouble addicts have caused with the meds issues.... we patients end up having to do these procedures so that everyone is sure we aren't just here to take pills. I deal with it okay most of the time but when I am pushed to do more than the steroidal injections I freak out and feel pretty abused by the whole system. anyone else who has experienced these RFL good or bad experiences PLEASE share with me. I will be pushed to do this in a month and need to attempt to get okay as possible with it by then.
Thanks and sorry I've not been around to be support for some and have just come here to take more than give. I will try to get over myself better and give away more often.
In Love Light Truth & Service,
Stubborn T
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I have a severe PTSD reaction when I must lay on the table and allow them to put needles in my spine. This reaction is from my mom's unnecessary sudden death when I was 16 yrs old from complications from her spinal surgery. It really is more than an anxiety attack. I am really not okay with these procedures and just want to take the meds cause they work just fine and if the day comes that I cannot walk then lets look at this other stuff. Well we all know with the way the docs and the feds and all the trouble addicts have caused with the meds issues.... we patients end up having to do these procedures so that everyone is sure we aren't just here to take pills. I deal with it okay most of the time but when I am pushed to do more than the steroidal injections I freak out and feel pretty abused by the whole system. anyone else who has experienced these RFL good or bad experiences PLEASE share with me. I will be pushed to do this in a month and need to attempt to get okay as possible with it by then.
Thanks and sorry I've not been around to be support for some and have just come here to take more than give. I will try to get over myself better and give away more often.
In Love Light Truth & Service,
Stubborn T
ralop
I find that it doesn't help to have a cause of your own. And I thought hazing was over and done with in my college days......
I'd give it a try as anything is worth trying. I pray it works for you. You will be a little sore afterwards, so just use ice on the area. Best of luck. God bless. hugs, Lee
I have been seriously abused 85% of the time I have been experiencing this medical issue. I do not need anyone's approval or agreement as I know what has happened to me and what has happened to many, many others in respect to these issues. I am an honest person with absolutely nothing to hide nor anything to gain from bashing anyone else.
I have 3 very awesome docs right now in an awesome pain clinic and it took me 8 yrs to find them. That said it does not take away from what hoops they and I must jump through to satisfy the feds so that I can live some sort of quality of life and my docs can continue their livelihood without unnecessary threats from an agency which knows a lot of nothing about medical issues.
So, if you have taken offense to my truths, I hope you choose to not take offense in the future. It will not hurt me but it cannot be much good for you.
I'm hoping you told your doc about that anxiety and that they're going to give you a good sedative for the procedure, as I have read that most have it along with an analgesic. I also read that if you have not responded well to other treatment, such as diagnostic local anesthesia nerve blocks, radiofrequency ablation will probably not work for you. You're asking here on DS, but if I were you I'd also do a thorough search on the internet to read stories from others. That's what makes me feel most comfortable with all this 'pain management'.
Yup, we all sure have to jump thru the hoops just to get medications now and it really sux. If you've read all of above and are still 'willing' to do this procedure, then I'm hoping that this will actually give you some pain relief and perhaps you won't even need so many meds. Best to you.
Hugzz ~Sandy~
Thanks for all of you being here. I guess I should check out if there's PTSD Group here on DS!! Love and prayers to all of you
"Stubborn" TerrieAnn
Hugs,