wondering it anyone else has had this happen..........

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Hi everyone,

I am just getting my first chance to read all the posts for this week

so I have pretty much been down for the count, and I was wondering it

you all could help me out on something....

since my surgery two weeks ago now my back has been on fire...at

first I didn't think much of it because I have a sensitivity to

adhesives and just chalked it up to the bandages.....since I had the

staples removed on Tuesday I have not had any bandages and well the

burning has been getting progressively worse each day....my primary

said to call my neurosurgeon and I did so....went in to see him

yesterday with nothing coming out of it....he has me trying lidocaine

patches and has said to try the over the counter creams with capcazin

in them...so far the lidocaine patches are doing very little and I

don't really think that the cream is going to do much more.....my

neurosurgeon doesn't seem to know what is causing this - said he has

never had it happen to anyone before and he has done a LOT of these

procedures over the years...I jokingly asked him if I was an enigma

and he said " well yes " said that I may have some blood pooling

around the nerves and that hopefully it will just disapate - seems to

be getting worse with each passing day....after all of the surgeries

that I have had over the yrs I have never had this happen - this lead

surgery was the fifth time they have been in this one area and I have

never had anything like this happen before so I don't really

understand what is happening now....

Any words of wisdom from all of you out there would very much be

appreciated!!!!!! especially since I seem to be getting nowhere with

the medical professionals right now.....

Thanks in advance everyone...

C.