Is this PN?
Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2014 4:39 pm
Hi everyone!
Am female, 64, retired. Almost 4 years ago I collapsed on the bathroom floor (bent & turned to wash my face), heard/felt a loud crack and fell to the floor. Thought had broken a leg. The pain was unbearable...After a long saga of emergency room, injections (epidural, nerve root cortisone), medication of all kinds (Tramadex, Arcoxia, Abitren, Elatrol, etc.), physiotherapy, yoga, swimming, Pilates, walking, reflexology and whatnot...nothing has helped. Have been taking Percocet 10 (1/4 pill when necessary - does help a little) for over a year and this is not an acceptable solution for me. Almost underwent nucleoplasty a month ago but cancelled because the surgeon said it would not help with the pain when sitting. Then he showed me the shape of my coccyx on the screen after my last CT - an angle of almost 90 degrees! I almost fainted. He immediately said this is not operated on. The previous CT and MRI show disk bulges at L4-L5 and L5-S1 pressing on nerve roots.
To sum up: am living in chronic pain, 24/7,in the lower back, between my legs and paresthesia (strange sensations like electricity, ice, numbness) along both legs, especially in the upper inner thighs.
The only real relief - for 3 wonderful hours - came at the Physiotherapy Clinic in the hospital when I spent only 20 minutes in a bed/table? that stretched and relaxed thespine after being computer programmed. The back pain disappeared 95% after only 12 minutes and the pressure/pain between my legs also almost disappeared after another 6 minutes. Then I got 3 hours of relief...and then it all came back.
Is this PNE? Could it be that I dislocated my ccocyx when I fell? Is this something you are born with (never had pain before while sitting)?
Am waiting for a consultation with another orthopedic surgeon in a few weeks.
Any ideas, advice?
Thanks,
Mia
Am female, 64, retired. Almost 4 years ago I collapsed on the bathroom floor (bent & turned to wash my face), heard/felt a loud crack and fell to the floor. Thought had broken a leg. The pain was unbearable...After a long saga of emergency room, injections (epidural, nerve root cortisone), medication of all kinds (Tramadex, Arcoxia, Abitren, Elatrol, etc.), physiotherapy, yoga, swimming, Pilates, walking, reflexology and whatnot...nothing has helped. Have been taking Percocet 10 (1/4 pill when necessary - does help a little) for over a year and this is not an acceptable solution for me. Almost underwent nucleoplasty a month ago but cancelled because the surgeon said it would not help with the pain when sitting. Then he showed me the shape of my coccyx on the screen after my last CT - an angle of almost 90 degrees! I almost fainted. He immediately said this is not operated on. The previous CT and MRI show disk bulges at L4-L5 and L5-S1 pressing on nerve roots.
To sum up: am living in chronic pain, 24/7,in the lower back, between my legs and paresthesia (strange sensations like electricity, ice, numbness) along both legs, especially in the upper inner thighs.
The only real relief - for 3 wonderful hours - came at the Physiotherapy Clinic in the hospital when I spent only 20 minutes in a bed/table? that stretched and relaxed thespine after being computer programmed. The back pain disappeared 95% after only 12 minutes and the pressure/pain between my legs also almost disappeared after another 6 minutes. Then I got 3 hours of relief...and then it all came back.
Is this PNE? Could it be that I dislocated my ccocyx when I fell? Is this something you are born with (never had pain before while sitting)?
Am waiting for a consultation with another orthopedic surgeon in a few weeks.
Any ideas, advice?
Thanks,
Mia