Dear all,
First I want to thank you for all your advise and sharing your med experiences in reply to my last post! For those who asked, I have two bulging discs in my lower back and I just had a second laminectomy for the second disc after the surgeon convinced me this could fix me after I had a "relapse" after my first surgery for the first bulging disc. Well, the pain was worse after the second surgery. All I am on right now is neurontin and had my third epidural two days ago. By some miracle this third epidural really seemed to kick in today -the previous two seemed to do nothing- but last time I had them, the effect did not stick until the third one. I don't think the neurontin is doing anything - at least I did not feel a change since I started it. If I could stay like this, I would not take anything else, but there is a good chance I will not and it seems likely that I will relapse at some point and honestly I do not want to risk more steroid injections. The thing is, that although the percocet works wonders when the pain is relapse bad, it's only enough to allow me to do minimal activity, so I feel like if I relapse again, I will have to drop out of a job again and the thought of living like that for the rest of my life is pretty scary/ depressing to say the least. The thing I wonder about is lets say I managed to find a PM who was willing to treat me with opiods, should you even go on opiods during a relapse to dull the pain to the point you can go about your daily rountine since your body is clearly crying out "rest!" ?
Love and hugs
Jxox