This is a discussion on Heading back to pain management, unfortunately..... within the Pain Management forums, part of the General Spine Discussion Forums category; Thank-you Katie, Alison, K-Bear and now Beth! I so appreciate the advise and concern. Katie, great minds think alike: I ...
Thank-you Katie, Alison, K-Bear and now Beth! I so appreciate the advise and concern. Katie, great minds think alike: I did go to hardware store and buy extra paint drops, heavy duty ones, so that helped and then the movers brought some runners which helped as well. They failed to put a runner on the stairs heading to lower level and I had just had those stairs and all the lower level carpet steam cleaned professionally on Saturday. So those stairs got filthy and will have to have them re-cleaned asap.Oh, well....at least the hardwood floors and the new carpet upstairs looks great still.
Yes, no worries, I would never cut the fentanyl patch. But I like the idea of maybe adding another on to the old one. I can't put two fresh ones on as I would get in trouble with pain management. The prison drug lords.![]()
I don't know what I am going to do about pain management. I guess the silver lining is that my hip surgery is in two weeks so the pain meds I receive after surgery will work for sure, yeah?! Since I am not taking any oral narcotics. I also, at some point, have to address this failed SI Joint Fusion with my surgeon as my back doc absolutely believes it is NOT fused.
I love you guys so much, I sure hope we get to have our reunion! Big hugs!!![]()
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• January 2000 MVA passenger, used jaws of life to retrieve me, neck injury and months of PT
• June 2001 Bicycle accident, 2 compression fractures at T12/L1, Vertebroplasty Sept. 2001
• April 2006 right hip, labral tear and repair
• April 2007 3 level ProDisc @ L3/4, L4/5 & L5/6✷ ✷Lumbosacral transitional vertebra; Dr. Rudolph Bertagnoli
• July 2, 2008 ALIF & Laminectomy @ L6/S1
• July 30, 2008 re-opened 28 days later to remove bone cement that had leaked onto S1 nerve root
• August 2008 Pulmonary embolism, double pneumonia, collapsed left lung, re-hospitalized 1 week
• March 10, 2009 Right SI Joint Fusion
• April 27, 2010 2nd right hip arthroscopy to remove adhesions and release psoas muscle
• September 30, 2010 lumbar facet rhizotomy
• December 9, 2010 12 bilateral lumbar trigger point and steroid injections
• December 23, 2010 12 more bilateral trigger point injections w/o steroid
• February 15, 2011 ESI bilaterally in lower lumbar...relief only for few days. Considering 1 more.
Did Spinal Cord Stimulator trial from 5/11/11-5/17/11 with excellent results; Spinal Cord Stimulator surgery is Monday,
July 18, 2011
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