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Reply: Herniated disc and pinched nerve pain

Funny I was hoping to have surgery but I am not bad enough ,..whatever that means. So is...

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Reply: TENS Useful or Placebo?

I am fairly new to all this ,..I took a fall off of a coffee table. (how does one fall off...

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Reply: is this the secret????????????

What do you mean about scar tissue?? All I saw on the mri was darker areas above the...

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Reply: is this the secret????????????

Hey Dave I first want to thank you for answering my posts. I have been lurking for awhile...

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Reply: pain meds that cause respitory shutdowns

I had taken piddly muscle relaxers that messed me up for weeks after I stopped taking...

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Reply: is this the secret????????????

Oh this reminds me of the tens machine! It worked great for a few. You know I want to hear...

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Reply: is this the secret????????????

Hey dave. Thanks for responding,..I was in rare form when I pposted. I try to toss aside...

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is this the secret????????????

I posted month or so ago about needing an mri and having a plate in my arm,..little did I...

Posted by betsey2u

I posted month or so ago about needing an mri and having a plate in my arm,..little did I know that was sooo piddly! ha. I got the mri and was told oh blown disc in the l5 and arthritis starting pretty much in all my discs,.whaaaaaaaa. I went through physical therapy for my ortho to tell me,..not bad enough to do surgery and not bad enough to do shots (I cant handle steriods anyhow). I wanted to scream,.my ortho said I should be happy.

about a week before my mri I discovered gluclosamine. And I was actually feeling good the radiculopathy had gotten better. But I could tell when it wore off. I am so tired of this garbage. But is this it?? Should I be taking gluclosamine daily? as it is I have been taking it every three days and I am taking cheapo dollar store stuff!
I asked with my exercises how long it takes for people to over come such a thing ?? and my ortho said any where from 2 weeks to 6mths.
Told me no bending no twisting. I am a mom who twists and bends all day long. lol.
Am I just masking what is going on by using the gluclosamine? I figure that is better than the other over the counter anti in flamitory I could take ibruprufin all day long and have a heart attack. I also am not taking my muscle relaxers. I just want to feel what is going on.
Does everyone with back pain just take pain killers or antinflamitory drugs? and for how long?
I think going through physical therapy helped me and also hurt me. the ortho asked what I was doing and mentioned for me not to do squats and I was like huh????? I was told to do squats!!
Worse thing is I have bursitis in my upper right arm and so its like dubble wammy,..try to lose some weight try to exercise,..dont do this dont do that,..etc... How do you lose weight cept dont eat and the exercise is so piddly for what they taught me. eshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

I want to go buy that tens machine but I know it did nt do much but it did calm down my spasms in my legs at times. So I think? ALl i know so far is that gluclosamine has to be helping me more than the other stuff has. I am thinking I better buy some quality stuff. lol. I gotta laugh because well noone around me understands. I am sick of buzzing legs and muscle spasms.
I have so many questions.View Thread

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Reply: lumbar radiculopathy pain

it says my discussion has 4 replies but I cannot see them,.hmmm

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Reply: something other than a mri?

I thought I had posted last night but I guess it didnt show up!. Turns out yep my plate is...

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