Help near severe degenerative disc disease L5,S1, polyneurapthy?
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You positively should not have to skulk 2 months to see a doctor for this!! I also have DDD & arthritis surrounded by my spine. As a result, I have have 5 lumbar fusions including the most recent at level L5-S1. While it did not stamp out all of the anguish, it did enough that the headache meds that I am taking make enthusiasm bearable. You need to see a different doctor. I would suggest an orthopaedic surgeon. Don't tolerate anybody tell you that you own to live with it. That's a over-hasty of crap. Good luck.
HELP! I have a LOT of collar pain. Does anyone know what this is?
If your discs are that degenerate and you have multiple guts compression, I would like to know why you haven't see a surgeon yet? You have need of surgery, nothing else will relieve. Ask for morphine and valium. Lyrica sucks. Good luck. By the way. That 2 month waiting length is a crock. You need to go and get more aggressive with your doctors. You necessitate help. Waiting for assessment results that long isn't acceptable.How come associates don't feel torment in their sleep?
Okay, I've be on Pain meds for DDD, for almost 10 years now, because there's not a unbroken lot they can do about it..... I enjoy it in my 3,4 & 5 lumbar. and contained by another area of my upper spine..... Its especially painful, and the point I'm on pain meds for it, plus I own Rhematoid Arthritis and arthritis in my spine, so unpromising, that when I went to a Neurosurgeon, for a lump on my lumbar, to be checked, merely to find out the Neurosurgeon wouldn't dare touch my spine, to remove it, because he showed me how bad my spine be with Arthritis, and explained to me, that it be like a "Fragile Piece of Glass" that the surgery could intensely well be a Disasterous one, going away me paralyzed, or worse, for me not to go getting a second judgment...... Or allow anyone else to try to remove it, that sometimes the lumps are nothing to verbs about, and dance away.... That even a biopsy could make things really "Ugly" for me....... So freshly go and see your doctor's and run from there...... I own never heard of a cure, or a surgery done for what we enjoy with the DDD....... But, Good-Luck, to you anyway!! Who know maybe they own some sort of modern remedy for it, by now...... You Have A Happy New Year, for me!!! Smile!!!My son be biten by a cat, should i worry nearly rabies?
Why can't you get results for 2 months? That is ridiculous!What type of doctor are you seeing, an orthopedist or a neurosurgeon?
Have you tried other medication other than the Lyrica? (neurontin for example?)
Unfortunately, nobody can diagnose you over the network, but this does not sound perfect, and you are probably a candidate for some type of surgery.
If you don't close to the doctor you see or are not satisfied near the answers you get, jump to another specialist.
good luck.
i hold ampathy for you and disiese, because i also suffer from advanced degenerative disk disease. i am 43 years old near a body that is always contained by some kind of stomach-ache, and is physically showing . i am young at heart and own always be active. but presently i feel passionate and mental anguish.i t effects my everyday routine, at times i feel smaller quantity of a person because i am have troubles with the simple things. i also enjoy fibermalgia and suffer from cronic fatigue syndrome.and yes the muscles and nerves are becoming weakened . i guess you could utter i at times feel clumsy and if you will excuse for dictum; retarded. i am apositive person but next to this disease that we share i do understand how and why you are impression depressed. i found that one thing that brought more aching is stress and being upset. breathing technches are also paying special attention, take long nice breathes, try thiese mininul but of use tips.my thoughts and prayers are with you.
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Dear triplet,I've be looking at your question, and at the answers, for a couple of days. I'm markedly touched by your plight as it's happened to me, too. I remember how unpardonable it was, not simply to experience the pain, but to be inept to do ordinary housework or even to accomplish the floor. One cannot believe how much of one's life is ON the floor! It be frightening.
My family doctor give me morphine, which, comically enough, have no effect at all. No side effects, no back with the throbbing. She did order an MRI and when the result come back she be as surprised as I was shocked, things be so bad. There be 5 herniated discs, including 2 described as "extremely large and severe, cause severe spinal stenosis." It was the nature of story that puts patients into wheelchairs, heads them to multiple surgeries and repeatedly a lifetime of pain and heavy-duty painkillers.
None of that happen to me, and this is where I postpone to write to you. It's true that, 16 months later, I acquire along miraculously well lacking any surgery ever and with no painkillers whatsoever, not even aspirin. I can do adjectives ordinary housework and gardening. My rear legs doesn't bother me at all, although sometimes I'm aware it's not rather "normal" - whatever "normal" is for a 67-year-old who's recovered from 5 herniated discs.
I wane to write this, as it is not comforting for you to hear something like "lah-di-dah, you should catch a miracle cure." Because of the severe pain you're within, I'd so much like to comfort you. The with the sole purpose comforting thing I can conjecture of to say is that I'm sure you will obtain better. If you look in the internet through google - herniated discs, for example, and it does nouns like you've get at least a disc bulging onto a boldness - you'll see that the majority of patients can and do recover short surgery. On the other hand, a significant number of post-surgical patients develop complications, relapse entirely or develop worse problems at other level of the spine.
What I don't yet see surrounded by your question is something that I have myself. I always, other had a powerful skill that I would find answers and that I would not have surgery. And this turned out to be true.
What are the answers I found? Basically, a acting special diet to lower inflammation that was much more compassionate than morphine. I began to be capable of walk again in 2 weeks.
I also found a number of supplements that give a hand to lower inflammation or repair collagen, the principal component of spinal discs. Because I've studied nutrition and complementary medicine to a legally advanced level, I be able to set up these treatment modalities summarily.
The 3rd treatment modality was the irretrievable one. A physiotherapeutic approach practised in my country that's said to be bright, not yet qualified in the USA. Unlike elder approaches, this seeks to identify and strengthen the transverse abdominus, a giant muscle that wraps from the front to the backbone of our lower abdomen, attaches to the lower spine, supports the bottom region of the tummy rather similar to a basket of muscle.
I don't know if you own any interest in trying these approaches to help yourself. I've written extensively in the region of aspects of the diet, the supplements and the physiotherapy in two other answers to severe put a bet on pain question. Rather than bore you with tons of extra paragraph, may I mention that if you'd be interested you could find these details by searching spinal column through my previous questions.
The physiotherapy approach is especially interesting to me. One of my best friends, by amazing coincidence, turned out to know a large amount about it. Thirty years ago, contained by studying yoga at college in New England, she had be introduced to an exotic and little-known yoga practise known as the Moola Banda. It's 5,000 years old, just known today even surrounded by India. She's been practising it ever since. She give me a book about it and yes, it's one and the same muscle - the transverse abdominus - that my wonderful physiotherapist taught me just about.
The diet: it means non-inflammatory foods for a brief time of time. And this means mostly vegetables and fruits. It's not a hanging diet, but it certainly won't hurt for two or three weeks. You'd be trying to 1) stamp out all animal-based protein molecules that are more expected to cause inflammation 2) exterminate grain-based, especially wheat, proteins for same reason and 3) slightly push up the pH blood match from its ordinary too-acid plane to a level that's a bit more alkaline.
The supplements: my nutrition prof suggested to me an American anti-inflammatory product call Zyflamend. I bought it, not totally sure it helped. (I have such a pain emergency that I tried every loyal product and modality at the same time, thus it's impossible to sort out which, exactly, be the most helpful.) In supplement to Zyflamend, which is a herbal mixture that I do understand from my own studies, my prof like aloe gel, so I got this as economically.
I swallowed quantities of omega-3 essential fatty acids and believe these are essential surrounded by controlling inflammation and therefore niggle.
There are 2 omega-3s, eicosapentanoic acid agreed as EPA, and docosahexanoic acid set as DHA. Of these two, it's the EPA you need to combat inflammation. It help the body produce more of the anti-inflammatory prostaglandin and suppress the two pro-inflammatory prostaglandins. (If this sounds complicated, it is) With respect to EPA, during the period of acute aching, you need to aim for 1 gram per afternoon. There are very few products that contain so much EPA, I lone found two. Whatever you buy should be manufactured from molecularly-distilled fish oils (to get hold of rid of the heavy metals) and you own to read the labels favourably to determine the EPA proportion, because most of these products contain too much DHA.
You can have some flax grease (don't heat it) next to your special temporary diet, and you can cook beside olive oil. These will not disturb the big EPA balance of the omega 3s that you're trying to declare for a period of time.
On my own, I dug up a strictly new product agreed as hydrolysed collagen. Remember, your spinal discs are made almost entirely of collagen. You can find information in the internet. Hydrolysed collagen has gone through a process that renders the voluminous molecules small enough for human assimilation by oral ingestion. It's sold in pill and soft form, in Canada and surrounded by the United Kingdom, I don't know about the US. I bought the soft form, and because of the extraordinary, almost miraculous "cure" that I enjoyed, tend to believe the collagen be helpful although I one and only took about 1/3 the dose recommended on the bottle sign.
A related supplement is called hyaluronic bitter. This is a component of collagen. Hyaluronic acid is comparatively popularly sold in vigour food stores through the USA where those buy it to rejuvenate their skin. I bought it, still have some within my cupboard, think it's a honourable idea.
Another anti-inflammatory approach is big on enzymes. These are widely sold in vigour food stores. You want to make sure that immense undigested molecules in food are help to break down before they can trigger inflammation.
In closing, one tiny make a note of: Lyrica is Neurontin, both are trademark forms of the underlying generic drug gabapentin. Every patient have a unique anguish footprint and working out the pain-killing drugs that can help is a prudish procedure. Surely your doctor will help you? I found Celebrex to be willing to help, and swallowed this during the acute pain phase, but I haven't taken it within months and would never take it lastingly as I believe it may be dangerous for the heart on a chronic reason.
I will think of you. Come backbone soon and let us know how you are doing.