Boy do I have back pain!

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I'm right here with you suffering from back pain, leg weakness and

many other syptoms. I had back surgery four years ago to fix this

problem. I have a vertebrae (not a disc) but the bone between the

discs at L4, 5 and 6 which comes out of alignment and pinches the

spinal cord. I don't take anything for pain, I don't want to because

I want to pay attention to increase of syptoms. As I said, I had

surgery four years ago, I had a lamenectomy with bone fusion. They

shaved bone from my hip and put it around that vertebrae that pops

out and the idea is that the bone should fuse and hold the vertebrae

in place.

Well, forty-five pounds later, guess what, it didn't work.

They " should " have used hardware to keep it in alignment. This

surgery was so painful, I swore I'd never have anything done to my

back again. But here I am, in pain and worse off now than I was

before.They want to put pins and rods in my back and I would be in a

body cast and be laid up for quite some time. Not going to happen.

Then I hear, well if you lost weight, this pain could improve, most

likely would improve. WELL, HOW STUPID OF ME, WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF

THAT!!!!!!

The nerves in my back are being compressed so badly that sometimes I

barely make it to the bathroom in time. I don't feel the sensation

almost until its time to explode. My left leg is getting weaker and

weaker. I can only stand for 5 or 10 minutes. I can walk short

distances before I have to sit down to relieve the pain and get the

feeling back in my leg. I have got to have WLS. I prefer a DS but the

insurance issue is a real problem.

I post the same story every once in a while to see if someone will

read my post and come up with a brilliant plan for me. Thanks for

letting me vent. Thanks for listening to me whine.

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