april - yes i started seeing the pain doc last feb. had first injection in left si joint bc he saw that is where most of my pain was. he wasnt quite convinced it was my lumbar disc. he did the injection but i didnt get any form of relief at all. so he did 2 injections in my lumbar spine...no relief at all. he did an epidural and i was in worse pain. he did a discogram finally. that test separates men from boys! lol. its kinda a trick test that people cannot fake bc how it done. anyway, it produced symptoms close and as severe as i was experiencing. he said 2 of my disc were torn. the mri showed herniated disc but not as severe as it actually was. he told me there was no more he could do..gave me a pain script and sent me to neurosurgeon. desperate to get out of pain, i had a 2 level fusion. worse pain since then. so after many doctors apt my ortho did more pain injections in his office (this year)and diagnosed me with si joint dysfunction with widening of left si joint. i did get immediate relief when he did both of those...but only for 8 hours or so. it was a great 8 hours though! ortho sent me to another neurosurgeon last month to evaluate me for si joint fusion. i left the neuro a total wreck bc he told me that i more than likely wont qualify for surgery. there went all hope. suicide has been a daily thought since then...but i wont bc my dad just died and it would kill my mom and my family to lose me right now. might seem stupid but thats my thought process. im not afraid of dying...only of being a larger burden bc of my actions. you know how depressing pain is. when every single moment of your life is spent in pain it really gets to you. but anyway, the neuro sent me BACK to the pain clinic for 3 more shots in both sacroiliac joints. had the first of this round last week. i got immediate relief and it lasted for the rest of the day...then up in the middle of the night unable to sleep bc the pain. but it was good while it last! lol. i got again on 5/9 and then 5/23 then see the neuro again on 6/1 to hear what he says. i wouldnt care a thing about disability if i could get out of this pain. ive worked since i was 16 through thick and thin...through every diagnosis. but this si joint pain is like no pain i have ever experienced. it never goes away. just sitting here im in pain. i dont sleep bc of it. 2 years of this. im hanging on though. i wonder if my doctors are overlooking something. if you have ever had a catch in your back or your backside hip, that is what i feel 24/7. im praying and hoping that someone will find a way to fix me. i do have pain in my back but its bc my fusion hurts a lot. my actual "spine" didn't hurt that bad until my back surgery. they say it looks fine though. my worst and the excruciating pain is both of my si joints (sacroiliac joints) which are on the outside of the spine. they connect the ilium to the sacrum. mine are screwed up somehow. pain doctor says osteoarthritis (joint degeneration). i guess he saw this while he was injecting me under xray. i dont care what they say is wrong...i just want them to fix me. Post edited by: heatherj78, at: 05/05/2012 10:08 AM "My world is disordered but I have security. I am a child of God."
Dr. Paul David Tripp
This article is about what Cipro did to my Dad and how it slowly killed him. He suffered so much...
http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/articles/cipro/cipro-side-effects-antibiotic-drug-11-12527.html#.UKQZ9-RfCAU |
I'm hoping I won't have to go there though.