Re: Arachnoiditis

[Guest guest]

All I can say is YIKES! I have had 1 or 2 spinal taps and 1 epidural. Not

signing up for anything else in my back after hearing all this.

Good Luck & BIG HUGS!

Anne

> Bennie wrote:

> The radiologist told me that the arachnoiditis is from sugery and takes a long

time to show it self sometimes.

[Guest guest]

> All I can say is YIKES! I have had 1 or 2 spinal taps and 1 epidural. Not

signing up for anything else in my back after hearing all this.

Anne,

Do Not , Do Not, especially with what you have. Now if they have to do a spinal

tap to see if you have disease, different, but anesthesiologist that become pain

management doctors and are " interventional " doctors that means what is says

invasive sticking you faucets, sticking your sacral iliac area, your disc area,

epidurals, THEN I love this one " diagnostic sticks " to stick to find

where it was you hurt to be diagnosed.

Then the RAUCZ procedure where they go up your coccyx and try to break up scar

tissue.. Then Neural blocks.

The American Society of Spine Surgeons state over three epidurals and no pain is

relieved no more and a disco gram should be done. I have two wonderful stories

about this.

-In order to get medication, where I went, where my insurance pays, I was at the

third part of my epidural or whatever stick, I was last one waiting for my

stick, the Doctor walks in, my in my gown, my consent signed, and says, " Oh we

can't do this, we tried last time and couldn't get through the scar tissue " Boy,

when I get mad , I get mad.

I said I want to see a Doctor, he said , Well this is procedure day and he is

doing procedures, Well a total of six hours of me waiting, I told him what I

thought and walked out.

-The other wonderful doctor who stuck me for over five years, wondering why I

said I hurt, I was given 50 mg of Tramadol, twice a day and nothing was working

so (injections) it must be in my head,so I went to Rehab specialist.

I have spent five thousand on bed, seven thousand on spa, go to physical

therapy, went to biofeedback training, went to cognitive training, imagery,

chiropractor and they damaged my back, water therapy . Well this guy does a

disco-gram and then comes into the room red faced and said I guess you do hurt,

there are fissures all through your disc and they are gone.

Your prognosis is poor and he then looked thru my chart and told me I was non

compliant two times missing appts (my other doctor. left and he is owner) I told

him I had permission to do so from his staff and he said to be compliant from

here on. I already had another appt with other doctor.

The two appts I missed were when my Mother died and I had to arrange her

funeral, the other time was reserve training and I called and nurse approved. I

sent this jerk a memo with my Mothers Death Certificate and My military orders.

When he found I was leaving and I sent this, he sent this " you wonderful patient

to my primary care " and I already told her I was going to a neurosurgeon.

I am holding out to get hardware out.

Bennie