3 Level Disc Replacement in Germany and Still in Pain

[wilsonrob]

1 of 3 things?

piriformis
SI joint
L5 or S1 nerve

Pain management should be able to diagnosis with injections or RF treatment.

If no leg pain it might be SI joint?

[jamie5136]

Originally Posted by wilsonrob

1 of 3 things?

piriformis
SI joint
L5 or S1 nerve

Pain management should be able to diagnosis with injections or RF treatment.

If no leg pain it might be SI joint?

No pain managment doctor has mentioned anything other than it "could" be the Si joint. It feels like the L5S1 nerve, but I don't know what that is. I get an injection tomorrow in the S1 joint and the doctor does do RF if needed on the ganglion impar, but can RF be done on the S1 joint?

[wilsonrob]

yes. When they do the RF they should do the SI joint. Make sure they do if needed.

[jamie5136]

Originally Posted by wilsonrob

yes. When they do the RF they should do the SI joint. Make sure they do if needed.

Well, I will see if the SI joint injection even helps tomorrow. If it does not, he might not do the RF. I don't know.

[Maria]

Jamie,
Hope you get some relief w/the injection and/or the pm will continue to try and figure out what the pain generator(s) is/are.

I was thinking about a work station I saw somewhere in a magazine a while back. It was a treadmill with a computerized workstation and I think that could easy enough to set up for yourself if you thought that might be helpful.

I had bought a great treadmill back when I was having the worse prob and wanted to walk inside and paid around $600 for it and it would have been easy to set a laptop up at it (don't know what it would take to connect it to a network).

My husband works setting up networks (LAN?/other?) I'm not really that into it just know that's his biz on the side or part of it at least for small companies and various private clientele. You and others here may know much more about this than me. I don't really have the aptitude for this type of thing.