Re: Posted on Leah's behalf...

[Guest guest]

Leah,

Welcome back from Lurkdom! I loved your little story about " suffering for

beauty " . Why not stay around?

Carole M. the elder

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Carole M.

Thank you!

I spend so much time trying to get caught up reading all the post I

don't have time to write. But I'll give an update on my situation.

I finally found a doc in Louisiana that would see me. He (I feel like)

begudgedly admited that I have flatback, but he feels that the

splipped disk, pinched nerve and sponda-whatever are the worse. He

wants to send me to Texas to Dr. Shelikov (did I spell that right?)

but I am afraid that he's going to want to operate and I just can't

afford that right now.

So I'm going to a pain management doc now, I've only seen him once

and he put me on Neurontin 3 times a day. I've been on it 3 weeks and

it hasn't helped at all. I go Feb. 19 for some injections I don't look

for that to help either because my orto tried it twice and it didn't

help. Therapy didn't really help either so I'm just kind agravated

with the whole mess right now, I just want to go to bed and stay there

because that's the only time I don't hurt.

I'll try to write more another day!

Leah

In , scolioly2@a... wrote:

> Leah,

> Welcome back from Lurkdom! I loved your little story

about " suffering for

> beauty " . Why not stay around?

>

> Carole M. the elder

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Leah,

There is much to be said about pain clinics and the good that they can do. I

did the whole routine with them and found the people (most of them) to be

truly dedicated to finding relief for the patient (and there were some pretty

strange patients). The word " injection " can cover a multitude of things. I

would never completely dismiss injections. I've had a few that did nothing,

and

some that did a lot of good. Sometimes it takes a day or two to realize that,

" Oh, my gosh, the pain is less! " . So give it a good honest try while you try

to avoid surgery. It may be worth everything you put into it!

Carole M.

[Guest guest]

Hi Leah,

I used to take Neurontin. My pain regimen now involves a few meds and a kind

of rotation every now and then. When I was taking Neurontin, I was

disappointed. However, if it gets thrown into the mix during my next " rotation "

I will

remember to take pain medication along with it. Thank you for the tip!

Carole M.

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Carole M.

I will give a good try I hope that it does help, yesterday was just

one of my bad days, up at 2:30a.m. with my husband before he went to

work at 3:30am and I had some stuff I needed to catch up on at work

so I went in at 5:00a.m when I usually go back to bed after he leaves

because I don't have to be to work until 10:00a.m. so by the time I

wrote that yesterday I was pretty bushed and I was hurting majorly

bad from sitting at the typewriter all day. But I think I need to get

up like that every once in a while because I feel more rested than I

have in a very long time toay.

This is to everybody,

Those of you who have been on neuroton, is it more effective if you

take a narcotic pain releaver along with it or a nsaid or something,

my brother-n-law who also takes it says his doc said that about it

being coupled with a narcotic. Because my doc only prescribed the

neuroton and it just ain't getting it. The Lortab 7.5's my ortho had

me on helped more than this does. Although

one to one half hours into it the lortab would be gone and I would

either have to take another one or just go lay down. The only benifit

I have noticed with neuroton is I get more sleep than I used to.

O.K. I'll shut up for now.

Leah

In , scolioly2@a... wrote:

> Leah,

>

> There is much to be said about pain clinics and the good that they

can do. I

> did the whole routine with them and found the people (most of them)

to be

> truly dedicated to finding relief for the patient (and there were

some pretty

> strange patients). The word " injection " can cover a multitude of

things. I

> would never completely dismiss injections. I've had a few that

did nothing, and

> some that did a lot of good. Sometimes it takes a day or two to

realize that,

> " Oh, my gosh, the pain is less! " . So give it a good honest try

while you try

> to avoid surgery. It may be worth everything you put into it!

>

> Carole M.

>

>

>