YOU ARE NOT ALONE!!!!!
iAM ALSO A MUM OF FOUR KIDS (3-14) AND HAVE BEEN TOLD FOR PAST 2 YRS THAT i HAVE TO ACCEPT MY DISABILITY AND JUST LEARN TO "CONTROL MY PAIN" !!!!!! cONSIDERING i HAD ALL 4 KIDS NATURALLY WITH no ANALGESIA i CONSIDER MYSELF TO BE ABLE TO TOLERATE PAIN QUITE WELL BUT
THISPAIN IS A JOKE!!
yOUR SYMPTOMS SOUND MUCH LIKE MINE. i HERNIATED MY DISC TTHROUGH A WORK INJURY AND HAD adr AT L5-S1. POST-OP I HAVE LOWER BACK PAIN THAT FEELS LIKE INTENSE BURNING AND THIS TRAVELS DOWN THE BACK OF MY LEGS ALL THE WAY TO MY TOES. sOMETIMES IT CHANGES TO SEVERE MUSCLE CRAMPING IN BUTTOCKS HAMMYS AND CALVES. THE LONGER I SIT (usually 10 minutes will do it) THE PAIN IN MY LEGS DRAMATICALLY INCREASES. AS THE PAIN INCREASES SO MY MOBILITY DECREASES AND I NEED A CANE. I HAVE BEEN THROUGH SO MANY DRS AND TRIED ALL THE NARCOTICS BUT WAS SEVERELY ILL ON ALL OF THEM, ANYWAY HOW DO YOU LOOK AFTER KIDS WHEN YOU ARE KNOCKED OUT!! i HAVE HAD A NEURO-STIMULATOR IMPLANTED BUT AM FINDING THAT IT HAS VERY LITTLE EFFECT IN REDUCING MY PAIN. AUSTRALIAN DRS ARE NOT WILLING TO TOUCH ME BUT I HAVE HAD DR ZEEGERS FROM THE ALPHAKLINIK LOOK AT MY SCANS AND THERE MAY BE A LIGHT AT THE END OF THAT LONG LONG TUNNEL!
IT INFURIATS ME MY PHYSIO KEPT TELLING ME THAT I WAS PERCEIVING MY PAIN TO BE WORSE THAN IT WAS, I MEAN HOW THE #!@* does he know. AND HOW CAN YOU "MAKE" YOUR PLANTAR REFLEXES ABSENT??? AS ANY BACK PAIN PERSON KNOWS IF WE COULD BLOODY WELL WISH AWAY OUR PAIN DON'T YOU THINK WE WOULD!! i mean DOH!!!!!
TAKE CARE JANENE YOU CAN EMAIL ME AT
grima6@bigpond.net.au if you need to chat! P.S HAVE ALSO TRIED nEURONTIN, LYRICA EPILUM WITH NO RESULTS!
Lorna