Re: Mylegram Results And A New Problem

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Dear ,

I think you are going in the right direction. From what I have read (which

included info that this group provided) the spinal fusion is for stability

of the spine and prevention of further harm to the spinal cord. Some people

find relief fro tenz units and deep heat ultrasound. If I could afford a

physical therapist year round, I know I would be in better shape. My

Insurance only pays for that following an accident or for a chronic

condition twice a year.

To get the kind of treatment I need, it would cost $85 per session, and I

just don't have the extra money to pay out of pocket. So, I do the best I

can with what I have. I noticed I had a flare-up of pain in my arms and

hands last night, and that was brought on by stress, which was my reaction

to somebody else's impact on my own finances. GGGGrrrrrrrr!

When the upper back muscles tighten, it can impact the entire arms just not

as severely as a damaged disc in that area. I hope you do not have a damaged

disc in the shoulder blade area. Massage and heat might help if it were

muscles and pinched nerves would be helped by a chropractor, but it would be

more severe and require ultrasound and other treatments.

I do hope you get the physical therapy you need to help you with your pain.

I also sympathize with doing without adequate pain management medication.

Doctors know that it is not good to go without adequate pain relief or pain

medication for a long time. I have been through that runaround, too.

The doc talks you into taking the medication, making you sign 3 pages, not

caring that signing your name several times and your initials 20 times,

causes pain and distress in your hands. It's a federal offense to misuse the

medication you are about to receive, and all that, just to make sure you

understand the rules.

You go through all the ups and downs of adjusting to it, and then, when you

are not miraculously better after several months of feeling normal and your

independence has been restored, they tell you it is not good to become

dependent on the narcotics, and they are only allowed to prescribe the

medicine (the one that works best) for a few months at a time because of a

federal mandate.

They change your medication or take you off it, and when you go through the

decline and return of the severe pain that brought you to the doc in the

first place, they suggest you go to another specialist to deal with your

other issues. They even tell you to have surgery, and that it may or may

not help alleviate the pain. At that time you leave, feeling rejected,

frustrated and totally unable to smile when the receptionist says to have a

nice day.

I feel like telling them what they can do with their nice day! Then I laugh

at myself and I pretend I am with someone that loves me and who would hug my

shoulders and laugh if I muttered that kind of comment. I could laugh at the

thought of my big brother flipping them the bird on my behalf. The laughter

always helps me get through it.

Crossing my fingers on your behalf,

Bonnadel

> from Missouri wrote:

> I got my results from my mylegram. There is nothing that can be done for me.

They told me that most of my pain was coming from L5. This is nothing new as it

has caused most of my pain.

I am not looking forward to something else going wrong with my body. I am only

48 and feel like a old woman.

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--- , " " wrote:

>

> now I am having numbness in my index finger and thumb on my right hand. It

started acting up on me in January. It wasn't all the time just off and on.

Now it is that way all time now.

>

> I think it's from my upper back because I had problems with it several years

back. I had physical therapy on it and it pretty much fixed my problem.

>

If a hand problem originates in the spine, it will be from the neck. But of

course there are literally dozens of other sources of such problems. I have

problems from carpal tunnel, as well as radial tunnel (a pinched nerve in the

forearm just below the elbow), and from damaged ligaments and tendons as well as

a ganglion cyst in my right hand. I have stenosis in the neck as well as

arthritic changes and disk degeneration, but it's about the only thing NOT

causing my hand numbness, weakness and pain!

Cheryl in AZ

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