Surgery finally over!

[Gil Denis]

Hi All

I just returned from my 6 month check up, Still dealing with Low Back pain, leg nerve stuff, Stabbing pain in the left SI Joint area etc,

Surgeon seemed too busy to see me? Did not want to answer all of my questions, Suggested a CTScan and XRays. "Xrays look good" How about my crooked spine? " you have a crooked spine no big deal"
Did a CT scan Holly ****! My L2-L3 in very very degenerated almost bone on bone
When asked what do we do now? He tried to change the subject. " you are the boss here..." The same **** he speals to all his patients. Then I asked how the stem cell injections are going? He asked his assistant to give me the web site information shook my hand and ran out of the room. What the $#@k.

Oh he was kind enough to give me more steroids with side effects to kill a cow and Celebrex. Well I will try the Celebrex and search for another surgeon I think he hopes that is the road I travel.

Apparently my spine is too much for him to deal with.

I will bring this matter up with my Lawyer and see what they think.

Gil

[Maria]

Your surgeon does not want to tell you what to do anymore since what he did seems to have failed. You may want to consider seeing someone that does revisions and just see what they say tho it could be too early to do something or true that nothing should be done at least for a while.

I'm sorry to hear you're worse. This is my main reason for not wanting to have more spine surgery. I know how I am now and don't want to get to that point where I don't where I'm at again. I'll keep this position for as long as possible at least.

Easy to say what will help a person before it's done tho once all the "stuff" is done and there are still probs or more probs then it seems it's not easy to say what to do anymore.

Gil I just hope you get some good pain relief and hope this stuff straightens itself out w/o more surgical intervention. I guess however it'd not hurt anything just to see if anyone would recommend revision surgery or something else. Recommendations can't hurt as long as they are just that.

[Gil Denis]

Maria thanks for the reply

I am now on five days of Celebrex and the stiff and sore lower back is much better but not great.

How long does it take for this drug to work? and How long can you take this drug.

Gil

[Maria]

Gil,
I took Vioxx which is much like Celebrex and it worked right away for me to alleviate pain. The only prob is that it also created chest pressure which turned to chest pain so had to discontinue it esp. when went off the market.

I think because Celebrex is a Cox inhibitor and Nsaid type of drug that it should work for the period of time that you're taking it like however many hours it's supposed to last. I don't think you need a build up to happen in your system to "feel" benefits. May just be that it doesn't help.

Vioxx worked really superbly for my cramps and my DDD but not any of the other type of pain that I had.

good luck~ sometimes it's just trial and error, trial and error ... until something clicks!

[jsewell]

Gil
I am sorry to hear of your continued pain . Also your doctor rushing out on you. Good luck finding another surgeon, i certainly would not go back to that guy who didn't have time for you.
I was prescribed celebrex right after my hip was replaced although i never got a refill as my surgeon only wanted me to take it for a few weeks. Not sure about the details on that one.
judy