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Hi Sharon,

Wow. Can you have surgery on it and fuse those disks or will it not help?

20 yrs is a loooooong time to suffer like that. The Dr refuses to do mine. I

have no choice to listen to him as My primary care Dr sent me to him and I later

found out he is a company Dr. I work with the Mentally Challenged in a state

facility. The building I work at has some very bad behaiors. What happened to me

is nothing new in the course of a day. Most people have no idea how violent

some of our people can get. I need a new job really because I am going to just

keep getting hurt or I am going to get a fellow worker hurt or another patient

as I just don't have the strength and am in too much pain to restrain anyone.

But I work for the state and the pay is good and I could not afford to quit. So

I am in the process of trying to find a differnt job for the state. I have a

lawyer. I had to lay off some of those meds. The state Dr kept giving large

doses of anti-inflamitory meds and my

stomach just can't take it anymore. Now I take them as needed. I do have a

lawyer but he can't make the Dr do surgery. I will end up going back to work and

in no time at all, I will be injured again. This will happen till I have nerve

damage. Then He will fix it. They hope in the mean time I get in a car accident

or something so they won't have to be responsible I am sure. That is why they

drag all this out forever. I was injured in August of last year. exhausted light

duty and now am off work with 100% of pay but Dr id making noises about sending

me back to work. I'll bet next month. Anyhow TY for the warm welcome and your

story. Makes me feel like I am not alone!!

Blessings

Penny

sharon studley wrote:

Sorry to hear you have been injured, be careful, I was injured yrs ago

now at work also by a patient, who decided to get comabtive in the middle of my

transfer, it was a bigger pt also, who started to sock at me, and I jerked my

neck back just hard enough to cause damage. I did the report, few days off, neck

brace, PT, and back to work, Stupid move, I have had problems with it still ever

since as I did not take the time I needed nor anything else. One of the RN's

there encourged me to do something to get me the longer time off I needed, and

take care of getting more medical help, which would of meant filing a law suit,

but I did not want to hear anything like that! I was young thought Oh, I will

heal, I will be alright I am strong, she lifted up her hair and showed me a scar

down the back of her neck and said look, this was done by working at a facility,

and if I had not had them pay for it, and continue to get payments while I was

recovering, I would of been in

traction the rest of my life and unable to return to any work, and just said YOU

need to do whatever it takes to get fixed properly, you have a hard job, and

injury rate is high as a CNA, and they have insurance for these things, if you

don't fix yourself now, you will have yrs of trouble with that neck, which is

what my PT was telling me,as they said I needed to quit this job. Long story

short, I did nothing, I Do still suffer awful, get terrible headaches from the

disc, and continued working in the healthfield pushing through causing more

damage to it, and other body parts, I tried going to office work, but my neck

still will not stand that, looking down, phone itis, get tingling,burning

shooting pain. Anyway here I am now diagnoised with Fibro on top of it, and yes

this is part of it the fibro has reintroduced me to this injury and the others I

have had since, and won't shut off. I was you did not touch RX meds, ate I don't

know how many OTC and pushed through the

pain, this is NOT a good idea, most Dr. agree now a day. I have long term

stomach issues now because not of the RX I had to give in to, as I developed a

dueodnial ulcer, way back from to many OTC, and now what I believe the internal

stress I put myself through with fighting this pain so long over 20yrs, as I

have just been taking prescribed meds appx 5 yrs which is a long time also, but

could not handle this pain without, and body would not cooperate with moving for

me most of the time without. I hope you lighter days. Please be carefull with

your neck, and think about your work re-lated injury as what might be the future

results, as I did not think it would be. In the work feild no one there really

cares what we feel as long as we show up. Take Care Sharon

" Penny S. " wrote: Hi ,

It's nice to meet you all too. So glad there are such nice people here that know

what is going on!! Now everything is coming together why I am having such flair

ups lately. I was injured at work by one of our residents. She head butted me in

the mouth and now I have 2 herniated disks in my neck. ( I need a new job, can't

physically do it anymore) PT has been VERY painful for me. The Dr does not want

to do surgery. He says there are plenty of people walking around like me that do

just fine and I have no nerve damage so he will not fix it. I don't DARE tell

the Dr I have Fibro as I know they will try to blame everything on that!! Then

they will try and send me back to work like I am or make me go on disability. I

can not afford that. This has been much worse since my neck injury. I have been

taking ibuprohen for the neck pain the last month. Before I was taking some

other stuff but trying not to take it regular. I HATE taking MEDS and will go

along time

with pain before I take anything. The injury was 7 mo. ago but as time goes on

my neck symptoms lessen but my fibro symptoms seem to flare up more. Thank You

for your reply and your insight.

Blessings

Penny In Illinois

vh wrote:

Welcome to our fibro family Penny. That is my Mom's name. :-) the group is

awesome. a great deal of support, love and kindness. I hope you find that

also. I am sorry you are going through so much pain. I hope things improve

soon. i think flexeril at night sounds like a plan. I also recommend taking

the a.d. at night too, to avoid any side effects. tha tis what works for me.

Nice to meet you.

Hugs,

VH