Re: Newbie from Miami Lakes

[Guest guest]

Hello Nadia and Welcome!

I am also in Miami, I live in Cutler Bay. I am also in chronic pain and just was

scheduled for an ACDF one level on March 10th. I am having it done at Mercy

Hospital. I am a failed back surgery syndrome patient, so I know and understand

chronic pain. Welcome to this support group, is very nice and I think that you

are going to like it.

Take care,

Millie

>Nadia wrote;

>

> I just joined, and my name is Nadia. I'm from New York in the summer and

Miami Lakes in the winter. I was diagnosed 10 years ago with Lupus and chronic

fatigue. Both are under control - well, mostly - with meds, but I get bad days a

lot. Just last week a bad day lasted for 5 days!!

[Guest guest]

Millie wrote:

> Hello Nadia and Welcome!

> I am also in Miami, I live in Cutler Bay. I am also in chronic pain and just

was scheduled for an ACDF one level on March 10th. I am having it done at Mercy

Hospital. I am a failed back surgery syndrome patient, so I know and understand

chronic pain. Welcome to this support group, is very nice and I think that you

are going to like it.

> Take care,

> Millie,

I am assuming you mean:

Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) is a surgical procedure performed

to remove a herniated or degenerative disc (Fig. 1) in the cervical (neck)

spine. The surgeon approaches the spine from the front, through the throat area.

After the disc is removed, the vertebrae above and below the disc space are

fused together. Your doctor may recommend a discectomy if physical therapy or

medication fail to relieve your neck or arm pain caused by inflamed and

compressed spinal nerves. Patients typically go home the same day; recovery time

takes 4 to 6 weeks.

It just confused me when you said you were having a ACDF and talked about failed

back surgery. I had a lumbar spinal fusion with instumentation. So you will now

have a c-spine procedure with your lumbar one, OUCH. I hope your surgery goes

well and with the microscopic kind and good doctors, I hope you have a great

recovery also. Welcome to you also Nadia and hope you pain free days. Bennie

>

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[Guest guest]

--- Nadia Semenko, Miami Lakes, FL wrote:

I was diagnosed 10 years ago with Lupus and chronic fatigue. Both are under

control - well, mostly - with meds, but I get bad days a lot. Just last week a

bad day lasted for 5 days!!

>I also have PVD (peripheral vascular disease) and that's managed ok with meds

too. If all that's not enough, I have (and so does my daughter) bad carpal

tunnel. I had surgery 4 years ago but the hand pain returned and is much worse

now.

Hi Nadia,

I am sorry to hear of all the things that you have. It is nice to hear that you

have most of it under control.

I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia and it goes hand in hand with chronic fatigue

syndrome. The early mornings and the evening are worst for me and of course

that is when the kids need me the most and supper time. Just keep fighting

through it and tomorrow will be a brighter day.

Renae

[Guest guest]

Hi Nadia. Just wanted to let you know that I understand about hand pain. I

have had carpel tunnel surgery in both hands. I now have a lot of trouble with

the right hand. I have been diagnosed with arthritis in the thumb. Sometimes

the pain is so bad that any movement sends waves of pain into my lower hand and

wrist. I was told that once you have carpel tunnel you will have permanent motor

and sensory nerve damage to some degree.

I take Tylenol when the pain flairs up. It helps most of the time. Flexall

over the counter lotion helps too.

Welcome and hope to hear more from you. Take care and hopes you have more

minimal pain days.

Huzs, Tami

>Nadia Semenko, Miami Lakes, FL wrote:

>I'm from New York in the summer and Miami Lakes in the winter. I was diagnosed

10 years ago with enough, I have (and so does my daughter) bad carpal tunnel.