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This isn't so much a request for natural (or unnatural) health ideas to help, since I've tried all I can (and continue to do the ones I simply need to do.) This is a question of where am I headed?
16 years ago, someone took me off an operating table onto a gurney. They pinched a nerve in my back. First thing I noticed pain-wise when I woke up, but within a day the pain traveled to my front. Because of that, I haven't been able to lean over for long, pick up anything heavy without suffering the next day, or do many forms of exercise that require core muscles. It's also bad enough that that was the reason I'm disabled.
Finally, after all these years, the back hurts worse than the front. My pain specialist only offers me shots in the back. I've done that twice in the course of 15 years. The first time, it did nothing to change the original pain, but felt like someone hit me in the back with a 2 X 4. The second time was a year ago. More pain the day of the shot, but no pain in 1/3rd of of my back the day after. And then it came back. He says, at best, it would give me 3 months of relief at $400 copay per shot. Outside of that, "there isn't anything else that can be done."
My primary says I can get all the relief I want as long as I hang upside down. (Rather inconvenient, not to mention, I hate the feeling of that much blood in my head.)
I do live on pain pills already, but I've noticed increasing the amount does nothing to mask the pain, so that's not it either. It's to the point that I'm moving all around to find a comfortable position, knowing there is no comfortable position.
What I'm asking is since it's getting worse and worse, where is this heading? Anyone know? My two thoughts are paralyzed, which honestly might be better, (assuming that means my back stops hurting), or laid up in my bed in agonizing pain.
16 years ago, someone took me off an operating table onto a gurney. They pinched a nerve in my back. First thing I noticed pain-wise when I woke up, but within a day the pain traveled to my front. Because of that, I haven't been able to lean over for long, pick up anything heavy without suffering the next day, or do many forms of exercise that require core muscles. It's also bad enough that that was the reason I'm disabled.
Finally, after all these years, the back hurts worse than the front. My pain specialist only offers me shots in the back. I've done that twice in the course of 15 years. The first time, it did nothing to change the original pain, but felt like someone hit me in the back with a 2 X 4. The second time was a year ago. More pain the day of the shot, but no pain in 1/3rd of of my back the day after. And then it came back. He says, at best, it would give me 3 months of relief at $400 copay per shot. Outside of that, "there isn't anything else that can be done."
My primary says I can get all the relief I want as long as I hang upside down. (Rather inconvenient, not to mention, I hate the feeling of that much blood in my head.)
I do live on pain pills already, but I've noticed increasing the amount does nothing to mask the pain, so that's not it either. It's to the point that I'm moving all around to find a comfortable position, knowing there is no comfortable position.
What I'm asking is since it's getting worse and worse, where is this heading? Anyone know? My two thoughts are paralyzed, which honestly might be better, (assuming that means my back stops hurting), or laid up in my bed in agonizing pain.
