A bloodpatch is the second step in healing leaking spinal fluid. First is rest/caffeine/fluids. Second is bloodpatch: an anestesiologist working with an xray machines removes blood from your arm and...
So sorry suz that you are feeling so poorly. Hope you find some relief or a basement window if you feel like jumping. I live in Paradise Valley AZ which is right in the Scottsdale Phoenix area. We...
I find it amazing with all the pain meds floating around my system that I would feel headache pain or a toothache. I do have to say that the blood patch replicates some of the pain you feel with a...
I had the bloodpatch today two weeks after the botched trial. Tuesday morning is a great time to go to the ER. Out in three hours. Relief is almost instantaneous. Have started looking at...
Thank you. Going over to Scottsdale Shea ER for a bloodpatch. I will check Barrows when I get home. Had my botched pump test at St. Joes but my fault cause I used an anesthiaolgist rather than a...
What do you do with the manholes? I keep falling into them looking for poop!!...
Thanks Lorie. I will go with my little dog and three friends on a yellow road to find Susie....
My friends here have given me new hope. I am going to try, once again, to go for the intrathecal pump to get me off my patches. I am looking for a neuro-surgeon to do the test and, hopefully, the...
It seems like the perfect gang for me: the Fantastic Four meets a circus sideshow. Probably a movie screenplay in there somewhere. Nighty-nite. Bob...
Thank you Grannie. Wow, if you could make chicken soup I might adopt me. I am going to stay & hangout. I will go back and try this pump again. A question: my expectation for the pump is being more...
You guys certainly are. Slow day today. Have to deal with the leaking spinal fluid and get a bloodpatch. Distance concepts in the Southwest are so different than traffic bloated Eastern cities....
Wow! Freaky. When the boys were younger we wished we had a girl in the mix. Now, though, we realize how lucky we are....
PALady: where in PA are you? Prior to our move to AZ in2002 we lived in Rumson, on the Jersey shore. We loved going to the Philly zoo and dining around town. I used to go to Pittsburgh regularly and...
Well, I am married (that was in doubt yesterday) with 3 sons, ages 18,16 & 13. We also have 6 dogs, all but one a rescue. From 1983 to 1991 I missed two days of running. We lived in NYC at the time...
Thank you all for hope. I now know that I am not alone and I guess it really can only be with fellow chronicers that I can openly discuss this issue. Lorie, you are so right, no one at home really...
Thank you for your kind thoughts. My fusion was at the same level. What a waste. Surgeons never really discuss how low the odds are of you getting relief from spine surgery. Then, when it fails, you...
I certainly am warmed by your concerns for a stranger. However, while I may be a lunatic about lots of stuff, I am lucent and clear minded about my decision to vacate these premises in the not too...
Wow!!! That was me. Strange though I didn't go nuts until 24 hours post-op. I do wish you so much luck and improved health. From my experience of 5 spine surgeries PLEASE try every conservative...
Thanks for writing so fast. Yes, one of the options might be the versed. am now 10 days post-surgery with terrible headaches so we can thrown in some spinal fluid leaking. I will head to the e.r....
Wow, sorry to read about Nucenta problems. I like it: relief in 5 minutes, wears off in 4 hours with no residual loopy feelings. Can't say my other narcotics are so gentle. Hang in there. We get it...
I am a rather typical Failed Back Surgery Syndrome patient with Degenerative Disc Disease and other stuff. I thought Fentayl patches were a gift from heaven until I developed a sleep disorder: I am...