Oh goody, injection in the spine, really looking forward to this ...

Fiddlesticks! Had a letter this morning, my operation was been postponed for a month (was 10th March, now 14th April). Was so looking forward to being healthy again!
 
Operation date is confirmed, yay!

But they've told me to stop 2 of my painkillers for 10 days before surgery, i'm going to be so much fun to live with. :D
 
Somehow missed this thread up until now but just caught up with it. Sounds like you've had a hell of a lot of waiting - really hope the op goes well next week and you can put this thing to bed :)
 
Letter in the post this morning, operation is postponed again. Only for a week this time though.

Missing my drugs :(
 
Adnams Drinker said:
After months of the GP prescribing various painkillers (amitryptiline, diclofenac and ibuprofen) - papering over the cracks as I put it - and some expensive and unsuccessful sessions with an osteopath, she's going into hospital tomorrow for an MRI, the results of which will determine whether it can be treated with physiotherapy or requires surgery. She gets claustrophobic, so she's terrified on two counts: being in the MRI scanner and the possibility of surgery ...
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My Ex had to have yearly MRI scans and was also terrified. Two things that helped, they can give her some glasses that mean she can see out even though she is on her back, also you can go in with her and hold onto her foot, even at a stretch you can hold her hand too..

With reference to the OP, i'd be weary of where this is going, doc's tend to like to treat the symptoms rather than fixing the cause.. bad back = painkillers, erm no.. fix problem, not hide it! Its true to say that the body tenses up and compensates so sometimes one problem is because of another. I'd recommend and osteo, a good one that has been recommended. Again my ex was subjected to all sorts of pain relief for years after childbirth as well as some really primitive osteo at the hospital, she went to an Osteo I knew and he sorted it all out over 6 visits.
 
peige said:
With reference to the OP, i'd be weary of where this is going, doc's tend to like to treat the symptoms rather than fixing the cause.. bad back = painkillers, erm no.. fix problem, not hide it!
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They've found the problem, but i need to stop some of my painkillers so there is no interaction with the general anaesthetic for the surgery.
 
Just a quick update, I had my op back in Jan (as posted earlier in this thread) and I now feel great. Not 100%, but it's still early days. I have still got some numbness in my leg, and very occassional slight pain (mainly when sitting in a bad position for too long). So all in all I'm very happy I went under the knife.

Good luck with your op!
 
It's so painful my missus who works in a hospital has seen it done and said she has seen grown men cry having it done, well yeah being stabbed in the spine...
 
So far so good.

Obviously there's going to be a special post delivery at 6am on monday, just for me.
 
Right, early night for me, early start in the morning, need to be in the ward for 7am :eek:

Almost looking forward to getting it done now!
 
My mum had this done, unfortunately it didn't work and they had to remove the nerve to get the pain to stop (or almost stop). They said it works and sometimes doesn't, good luck :).
 
Almost didn't get seen after finding out there might not be a bed for me after treament :eek: Arrived at the hospital at 7am, went down for surgery at 2.30pm once there was a space for me afterwards.

If you've not had a general anisthetic it's a very freaky experience, lay on the bed, the staff are talking you though what each injection is doing and that you might feel a bit dizzy and the next moment you're waking up on a ward with pipes coming out of more places than you're comfortable with. :eek:

They left a drain in the wound overnight so i managed to get roughly 2 hours sleep as every time i moved it would tug on the drain, which in turn tugged on the wound. Not to worry, they gave me 2 paracetamol .....

All tubes out this morning, got up, walked 20ft and had to be helped back to bed when my blood pressure went through the floor. More rest, tea and fluids and i managed to walk unaided AND go up and down a step (anything to impress a woman in a nurse outfit ;))

Home now with a big pile of tablets (drugs aren't always bad m'kay) and a sheet of exercises to do.

Never realised until now that you use your back for EVERYTHING, learning, bending, reaching, lifting etc. I've learned what the phrase "weak as a kitten" is all about, wife has made me a nice big cup of tea, and i can't lift it without wincing.

Can't drive for roughly a month and i don't know when i'm going to be able to drive my SJ again (it's not the smoothest of cars), can't pick the kids up, can't reach things in high (or low) cupboards. A general invalid basically.
Surgeon said i should be back to pretty much full strength in 6-8 weeks.

But it's done! The pain should stop! Huzah! I can get back to fitting cameras (i got into CCTV after losing the DJ job, but it kind of went to pot when i couldn't safely get up and down a ladder any more!)
 
Had my checkup with the surgeon this morning, he says the continuing trouble could be due to either another disc prolapse or scar tissue forming on the site of the surgery. :(
He can do a further surgery to fix it, but it has all the previous possible dangers, but at higher probabilities.

Arse.

New trade needed!
 
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