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Trust me, I am not in the mood to play fill my back with injections games with these...

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Trust me, I am not in the mood to play fill my back with injections games with these people. I did have a set of facet block injections, that did not work which led to my having a rhyzotomy, which I guess worked for a little while.

I have taken that gabaprentin (spelling) which is a nerve pain medicine, but that is the medicine I was taking that messed me up real bad. I was slurring my words and walking funny, and I fell asleep a lot, even while driving. I am on a few antidepressants and an NSAID plus the Norco 7.5/325. I was taking a different NSAID and Tylenol #3, which worked fine for over a year, then slowly stopped. My Rhuematologist (not sure if I spelled that right) changed my medicines a couple of times and then quit changing them. He acted frustrated and said he was just sending me to the Pain Center, for injections. (I think I should be the one getting frustrated)

My family Dr sent me for another MRI and gave me a Rx for Tramadol .(also not working) I got a copy of the written report sent to me and compared it to the first one. There are several differences. But it is still quite confusing. I do see thing in there like; "facet hypertrophy", "subtle effacement of dorsolateral thecal sac", "lordotic curvature with maintenance of the vertebral body heights", "disc desiccation and and narrowing are present at the levels of L4-L5", "thickening of the ligamentum flavum causes narrowing of the lateral recesses bilaterally", "small synovial cyst along right facet joint", "large hemangioma within the L4 vertebral body, a smaller second hemangioma on the left side of the L4 vertebral body.

All that kind of stuff I don't understand. Some of the other stuff like the spondylolisthesis (spelling again), osteoarthritis, and herniated disc I do understand.
I also do see where my Dr keeps telling me it shouldn't hurt this bad, when it does.

Maybe I'm just a wimp. But I do not like to be in pain. Just over a year ago i was fine..... I went to work, shopping, drives, walks and I played with my grandkids...I can no longer do any of that without serious pain. (sometimes with tears)

I will for sure be looking else where for help if this pain center does nothing more than push their injections.

Sorry for rambling. I just woke up and sometimes do that at this time of day.View Thread

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