Well I have meaning to do this for quite some time. So why not start today?
I have dealt with chronic pain for most of my adult life. My current dx's are fibromyalgia and 2 herniated disc in my lower spine.
Lately my hips are bothering me more and more, as well as I get shooting pains from my neck down my right arm that causes my fingers to lock up. And I can't squat down to pick anything up off the floor or it takes me 10 minutes to get up because I now have severe knee pain.
My current pain management Dr... well honestly they suck. I have NEVER seen an actual Dr the whole time I have been going there. She informed me that they only rx meds for 6 months and I'm at the end of the line for them. They only do intraventive injections. I have a a set of trigger point injections from them, which helped for about 2 hours and then for the following 3 days I felt like someone took a freaking 2x4 to my shoulders and neck. I couldn't even turn my head.
They have never helped me with my meds, they have me on hydracodone 5's which is like eating candy ... So I end up taking 1 and 1/2 and 4 tylonal arthritis 3 times a day. Every rx they have written that was denied by my insurance they never tried to fix. Like my Cymbalta, when I was on it, flexeril, hydracodone 10, and trazadone, it realllllly helped me a lot. I could actually take part in my children's activities and clean my house. Now I can't stand for more than 10 minutes and I feel like I'm going to snap in half.
I have more flare-ups and high pain days now, then I have ever had in the past.
So they want me to do another epidural injection for my lower discs. Let me tell ya what happened at the last and only one I had done there.
My appointment was at 7:30 am. Hubby decided to go into work late so he could drive me to and from the appointment. We drop my older 2 Little's off at the bus stop and take the youngest with us. We get there and they lead me back to the room. The Dr comes in and tells me what he is going to do. That it won't hurt at all, and I will feel 100% better afterwards. (FYI He is a lying little punk!!). They numb my back with like a million shots (which he compared to bee stings, and I'm sorry if you have EVER been stung by a bee... that crap hurts!) He then JAMS... yes jams a freaking needle into my back, as in I felt pain from the site the needle went in to my toes and up to my head. At this point I'm all teary eyed and waiting for the promised relief from the medication the was going to inject. He is such a lair head!!! When they medication went in, it felt like someone was pouring lava into me. I had insane pressure. I felt like my spine was going to snap in half. At this point I am in tears, as in bawling my eyes out ... at which point he told me to "suck it up" and that the "discomfort" I was feeling would be gone in 20 minutes. He finishes up and walks out of the room!!! I was in so much pain I couldn't move!!! I manage to hobble out of the room, on the way out the nurse tells me to go home and rest for an hour and that I would be able to go about my normal day then. So we get home, Hubby feeds the Little and heads off to work in West Va ( which is about an hour and some odd minutes away ). Through the day the pain gets worse and worse. I was in tears all day. By the time my older 2 got home from school I was laying in the floor hysterical and unable to move. Every time I tried to move felt like I was breaking my back and hips. My neighbor got home and came to check on me around 8:30 that night. She sat with me till 10:30 when Hubby got in from work. He carried me out to the car, had the neighbor watch my kids and we went to the ER. (Where I spent the next 7 hours). It took 4 shots in my IV to ease my pain. The Dx was.... ADVERSE reaction to the injection. My spine was so swollen he couldn't really read my MRI they had done. He said that when I first came in that he thought was was going to have to send me to MRH for emergency surgery from a compacted spine. ...
And these idiots want me to have another one?
Since having that injection, my back is hurtin 100% worse than it ever did before. Before I would have ok moments. Not anymore. It hurts to sit, to stand, and forget sleep.
I just don't know what to do. I can't keep living like this. My kids need a Mom that can do things with them, not an invalid that is in so much pain that she snaps over everything.
I go to a new Dr the 20th of March..... I really hope they can help me out
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