skornenicholas
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I believe they no longer bother with the "SWIM" non-sense here, if I am wrong, I'll happily correct it.
This is my current situation, I'm in my early 30's and have extruded or herniated discs on all levels, L1-L5.
I've had a laminectomy and two discectomies (L5-S1 & L4), which brought me back some mobility but not pain relief.
Now that my lumbar is all in so to speak, full degenerative disc disorder, I am looking at lumbar fusion as the only real option to keep any mobility on my left leg.
While hesitant, my PCP finally came around that due to the sheer amount of damage, non opiate therapy is simply not going to cut it.
I also suffer from epilepsy and am on three medications, which makes gabapentin and Lyrica quite iffy because they are in the same class of AEDs.
I have a very talented neurosurgeon who has been very honest, many of the nerves and nerve roots are dead to the point that they are beyond repair, but some can be saved.
As you can imagine, I am in quite a great deal of pain, I take hydrocodone 10mg 4xday. I am rather afraid to tell my doctor that I have had one too many sleepless and painful nights due my condition because I had a not so great doctor who yanked all my meds claiming I was faking the pain. My current one simply looked at my MRI and said "People lie, MRIs don't."
If gabapentin is out, and currently I have no cash for Lyrica as I have been out of work for too long, does anyone have any suggestions that wouldn't start ringing alarm bells in my PCPs head?
I'm drug tested every so often and have never failed, but I'll admit I've had times where the pain was so bad I took three of my Norco and hoped I slept as long as possible before I'd need a new dose.
I feel I need a long acting opiate, but given the current state of things, how do you broach that issue when things like OxyContin jumpstarted this insanity?
Right now it has spread from my back, left buttocks, all the way down my leg and into my foot, radiating out from my ankle to my big toe. I've tried to exercises and such, do them as often as I can, I just hope someone here might have some advice.
Thank you very much for your time
This is my current situation, I'm in my early 30's and have extruded or herniated discs on all levels, L1-L5.
I've had a laminectomy and two discectomies (L5-S1 & L4), which brought me back some mobility but not pain relief.
Now that my lumbar is all in so to speak, full degenerative disc disorder, I am looking at lumbar fusion as the only real option to keep any mobility on my left leg.
While hesitant, my PCP finally came around that due to the sheer amount of damage, non opiate therapy is simply not going to cut it.
I also suffer from epilepsy and am on three medications, which makes gabapentin and Lyrica quite iffy because they are in the same class of AEDs.
I have a very talented neurosurgeon who has been very honest, many of the nerves and nerve roots are dead to the point that they are beyond repair, but some can be saved.
As you can imagine, I am in quite a great deal of pain, I take hydrocodone 10mg 4xday. I am rather afraid to tell my doctor that I have had one too many sleepless and painful nights due my condition because I had a not so great doctor who yanked all my meds claiming I was faking the pain. My current one simply looked at my MRI and said "People lie, MRIs don't."
If gabapentin is out, and currently I have no cash for Lyrica as I have been out of work for too long, does anyone have any suggestions that wouldn't start ringing alarm bells in my PCPs head?
I'm drug tested every so often and have never failed, but I'll admit I've had times where the pain was so bad I took three of my Norco and hoped I slept as long as possible before I'd need a new dose.
I feel I need a long acting opiate, but given the current state of things, how do you broach that issue when things like OxyContin jumpstarted this insanity?
Right now it has spread from my back, left buttocks, all the way down my leg and into my foot, radiating out from my ankle to my big toe. I've tried to exercises and such, do them as often as I can, I just hope someone here might have some advice.
Thank you very much for your time
