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

i'm another one that this is what nightmares are made from hate injections you'd have to knock me clean out to inject my spine i just couldnt physically allow some one to do it even if my life depended on it i couldnt let some one do it.
 
feel for you fella, have you had a second opinion? spinal surgeons are excellent dont get me wrong but there is always another opinion.
 
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feel for you fella, have you had a second opinion? spinal surgeons are excellent dont get me wrong but there is always another opinion.
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Spoke to a chiropractor today, gave me a physical and told be i'm showing signs of the problem again (no ****!)

Pulled up the MRI from the first time and showed me the 3 problem discs, 1 pressing on the nerve (which is the one that was operated on), 2 squashed but not quite touching the nerve, but that was a few years ago now so things might have changed.

If the nerve is being compressed again i can go back under the knife, if it's just nerve damage without compression i can go back to the epidurals.
 
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I had a disco gram a few months ago not nice as the needle was bloody huge and it went on from the side into a disc into my spine well two discs.

I have two slipped discs and they did it to see how bad it really was and yeah not great news tbh.
Any ways good luck dont hurt really just weird.
 
I had an injection into the centre of my right elbow, was extremely painful as the pre-numbing injection hadn't do anything, god knows what its like on the spine though! :eek:

Deal with it like a man and smile through it all like a boss! :p
 
MRI this morning, went in feeling fine, came like a cripple, not being able to move for 20 minutes has it's downsides :(

Now the long wait for the results to travel up two floors to my surgeon :(
 
I had an injectin on thursday into my lower spine, its one of the most painful things I have ever experienced. They had to go in from my pelvis, so it felt like the pain lasted forever.
 
I've had injections in my toe, thumb, elbow and lower back. The back one was by far the most painful.
I was literally in tears.

Stay strong man. Stay Strong.
 
I feel your pain mate, my dad has 4 or 5 discs that have extreme wear on their carterlidge so they now resemble coral, as you can imagine that causes a lot of friction and pain. Hes been on opiates/morphine etc which just takes the edge off. Unfortunately no surgeon will touch someone with so many disks gone.

Best part is its probably hereditary, and I'm already starting to have lower back pain at 30.
 
Genetics ftl, my family seem to run with this, my mother has it quite bad and it's put my uncle in a wheelchair.

Get yourself to a doctor asap.

They've got better surgical "abilities" than they had 20-30 years ago so if you get in front of it now it might not get hit with it so badly.
 
I've had one recently; I've got a herniated disc. It doesn't appear to have helped much either.
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Now the long wait for the results to travel up two floors to my surgeon :(
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Yep, tell me about it. 6 months to get from the MRI unit to his office down the corridor. Then to another department, then another 3 months for the actual caudal injection :(
 
Another sufferer of siatica here, it always seems to come on when iam driving. :( nothing major but nearly always feel an aching feeling on the inside of my right leg.
 
I had a lumbar punch when I got viral meningitis when I was younger.

The fact I was in so much pain already probably masked it, but it was quite uncomfortable....I wouldn't say sharp painful like a cut, but a large dull pain like a thump in the face.
 
Results back (ruddy quick too!)

Forminal stenosis at L5/S1 compromising the right L5 root, along with changes to the L4/5 as well.

Just waiting for the outpatient appointment with the surgeon to ask him to stick the knife in me again.
 
Had nerve studies for my carpel tunnel work, gone out of my way not to be electrocuted for years and then some technician does it on purpose!
 
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"steroid epidural" injection in my lower spine.
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Ive had a lumbar puncture and two epidural anesthetics; its not bad they gave me a local anesthetic each time. You do have to keep very still which is hard when you8 do not know what to expect, I told them each time let me know just as you are going to put the needle in so I can be ready so I don't jump. The last thing they want you to do when the needle go's in is jump so just brace yourself and its not so bad.

It might hurt a little but its very bearable, also for me each time I got like an electric shock feeling shoot up and down my left leg (don't know why it was the left one must be where they put the needle). That was quite odd indeed, but anyhow don't worry about it all it will be better if it treats your back pain and it really is not so bad.
 
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