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Hi Tony,

Thanks for responding, How much Vicodin do you take? I take about two a

night to sleep and I still suffer with moderate pain most the time. How did you

injury your back and why did you need the surgery? What were your symptoms

before surgery? I had my second MRI tonight, I am going to blow up at the docs

because I cant handle the pain I'm in. I am scared to ask for more pain meds

because I'm afraid They will think I'm addicted to them and take them away from

me completely, an I NEED THEM! I know people do abuse them sometimes to get high

but right now I take them only before bed so I can sleep, not to get a high,

plus the darned things make me nauseated half the time if I do take them during

the day. Also was your surgery a success?

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Tony <madylinsdaddy@...> wrote:

It doesnt sound like your medical team is very dedicated to you or your

medical needs. I had Lumbar Fusion of L-4, L-5, and S-1 area in August of 2004,

For an injury that took place in 2002. I have been on several different pain

medications. I have been on.... Pecocet, Vallium, Morphine, Elavil, Avinza,

Vioxx ( not anymore), Motrin, Flexaril, Vicodin, and Soma. I have been on the

Vicadin and Soma for the past 2 years and have devoloped absolutely no addiction

symptoms. I can either take them or not. No withdraw when I dont take them. I

live in Ohio and I would highly reccomend my surgeon. His name is Dr. Larry

Todd. His phone number is 614-890-6555. I can tell you, I have been through

Physical Therapy, and pain management and neither of the two has helped, even

the slightest bit. In my opinion, I think that you would be wasting your time

with PT or Pain management. And like I said, I have been on Vicodin and Soma for

the past two years, and I have had no adverse side affects. But

keep in mind that people are different. I wish you the best of luck, maybe this

info can help you.

Tony...Ohio

blondy26 <blondy26@...> wrote:

Hi everyone, I need some advice so anyone who can take the time to read this

and respond It would mean THE WORLD to me. My name is , I am 26 years

old, and I suffer with lower back pain. It started when I was 10 years old,

only then the problem was off and on, I rode horses and was bucked of many

times. What would happen was I would move a certain way and my whole back was

frozen with pain, I couldn't move, this continued OFF and ON, only a few

episodes a year all the way through high school. The problem really went away

from age 18-23, I was very thin most the time and had little-no back pain.

Three years ago my husband and I bought a two-story house in a desirable area in

northern California. In order to afford the house we had to buy a fixer upper,

the house had orange carpet, pink walls, and yellow linoleum. My husband and I

had to do the remodeling, painting, put in new flooring (tile) all ourselves.

It was at this time that the pain came back and was present

most

the time. I pushed myself painting, laying tile, putting on baseboards my

doctor prescribed Vicodin which took care of the pain, I used it off and on 1-4

pills a day when needed until today. About six months ago my doctor tried to

cut me off the vicodin, HE was so RUDE to me, he said I was too young to have

back problems and basically called me a Lier. I started crying in his office

and pushed him to order an MRI. My MRI showed disk dehydration and herniation

of 5mm on L4-5 disks. I was referred to a pain management specialist who also

treated me like crap and said my disk was not that bad and my pain was from

muscles, and I needed to stop taking the vicodin. I lowered my dose from 4 to 2

a day and though it takes the edge off the pain, I suffer much of the time.

Just last week I woke in my sleep with a throbbing pain in my lower back and I

COULDN'T FEEL MY LEGS!! I was able to get up and walk around the numbness

turned into pins and needles but didn't go away for hours, I

have had episodes like that off and on all this last week. I had an emergency

apt. with the Pain management doctor on Friday. He scheduled another MRI for

this week and gave me a prescription for a steroid. I had a terrible reaction

to the steroid, my heart felt like is was beating so hard it was going to jump

out of my chest, and I had pretty bad stomach pains the next day. If anyone

here can give me any advice about what you have done for similar problems please

let me know. What kind of medications are the safest for long term use, safest

for your stomach, liver, and kidneys. Any advice or stories of your own would

help me so much, thanks JESSICA