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Avatar n tn Does anyone know of a cervical spinal fusion reversal that has proven effective and has a relatively high percentage of good results? I had a spinal fusion that looks great in an MRI but caused a large increase in pain level. I have gone from a 6 to a 10 pain level.
9668401 tn?1405176684 lidocaine patches are WONDERFUL. they have a gel on them and they feel so good. go for it. although, i will tell you that it doesn't go deep enough to remove the pain, kind of just distracts the pain.
Avatar f tn Two days ago I had the hardware removed from my spinal fusion on August 1st. I have been on fentanyl since my first failed fusion 8 years ago. My primary care dr said I would realistically never get off of it. I want to now that my back has fused. I have a lot of pain at present after the hardware removal. My pain has not been controlled because of the fentanyl. I was warned but there was nothing I could do to prepare for it. I feel like someone was digging for hours in my flesh!
338416 tn?1420045702 Sometime it feels as if liquid is running down my leg. I have the cold patches and like something crawling on my ankle and there will be nothing there.
Avatar f tn I had a neck fusion in Oct. 2007 as my legs were giving out. I have been left with a right hand that feels like ice on the inside all the time and tingles all the time. Now the top of my right foot is cold for no reason. Just started this week, what should I do?
Avatar f tn I had a nerve amputated on the right of C1 during a fusion. I know have acute paine and burning sensation of the scalp that causes me headaches and muscle spasms and tightens of scalp and neck muscles. Has anyone experienced this with a nerve being amputated?
Avatar n tn I have and c5/6 disk fusion over 10 years ago and have continual pinched neck nerve pain that I deal with all the time. MRI shows continually bad but surgery not recommended (good). Question - since I can feel when the nerve pinches, it is on right side of neck - any pressure and it gets worse and triggers bad migraines but also swells up the back of neck. I use ice and fiornal to control pain. sleep with ice packs on my neck. can this raise my blood pressure?
Avatar f tn I had Spinal Fusion surgery in 2003 but have had continous pain in the sacro illiac region since that date, I have had X rays that show degenerative changes and also inflammation in the area. Is there any surgery that's successful in solving this problem.
630697 tn?1222307886 L4/L5 discectomy in 1998, laminectomy 2 days later. Mechanical fusion with bone graft of L4/L5 in 2005. L5/S1 discectomy in August this year. I had relief for 3 weeks and now symptoms have returned. With sciatic pain in hip, thigh and calf I also have lost the feeling in the outside of my foot and partially up my leg and have no ankle reflex. My calf muscle is shrinking, 2" smaller then other leg. I have had a feeling of a pulled muscle in my calf for weeks. Is this back related?
Avatar f tn If the bone has not knit together, it is a sign of psuedoarthrosis or failed fusion. While this is a small percentage of complications post fusion surgery it does occur. A bone stimulator applied to the area sometimes helps with the fusion process. As for the permanent spinal cord damage -- it would also mean you will not be completely pain free and will have residual symptoms that can not be alleviated.
Avatar m tn fusion was from T11 to sacrum. It feels like there is a "slab" covering the fused area out to 3 inches either side of the spine. It is not painful. I have lower back pain, mild 24////7. It intensifies to major pain if I stand for more than 5 - 10 minutes. It intensifies with any activity involving any lifting, turning stooping etc. I am able to walk with a cane 1//2 mile, 1////4 mile without. I use a treadmill for longer exercise, but must support myself wiht the arms.
Avatar f tn Cold sore fx and polysporin patches they make for cold sores cause then you can put a small dab of cover up on it. I rarely get them now.
Avatar n tn haha I have been tapering off of Fentanyl patches (100mcg) for about a year now. I never had one single problem until I got to the 25mcg patches. Of course, Duragesic has stopped production of the 25mcg patches so I am right now suffering severe chest pains on the generic patches. I have tried both sets (small slender strip and the larger gel-filled type) and both make my chest hurt to high heaven. Right now I can't sleep because of the nagging pain in my chest.
397539 tn?1233258097 Autum, please get the nicotine patches. It is a 10 week program. 6 weeks on 21 mg/day patches, 2 weeks on 14mg/day patches, and 2 weeks on 7mg/day patches. You won't have these terrible withdrawal symptoms, and you can re-learn how to live your life without smoking. I quit in 1992 after 23 years of smoking a pack a day. I had tried everything from cold-turkey to hypnosis, but only the patch helped me.
Avatar f tn I have been waking up with severe upper arm pain. I have a cervical fusion already and was in a car wreck on Aug 29 2015. I am losing being able to hold things and worried about the pain. Does anyone else have this ?
1271743 tn?1320892461 I had ankle fusion approx 1yr & 4mnths ago. My ankle has shown healing after the fusion. I have noticed sometimes at night or in the afternoon when I am trying to relax, or watch tv, that my ankle will jerk. It's like the muscle spasms but since the ankle is fused it cannot move. It hurts terribly and I don't know what I can do to reduce the spasms or help so it does not jerk so hard.
Avatar f tn the treatment of listhesis is fixation and not fusion (fusion is the oldest naming maybe still used by some radiologist), SURE your vertebra are fused even if you still have some heaviness in the lower parts of your back.. this is suffucient to have screws at place to say thatthe patient is fused.
Avatar f tn Hello Dr. Do, Thank you fir your answer. I heard about a product called "Fastt Patch" from Wei Laboratories. Those patches are made from special Chinese herbs and spices and in combination those should help to accelerate the healing process by two or three weeks. Would you recommend using those patches?
Avatar f tn I'm 31 weeks & 2 days and I woke up this morning with a cold sore on my bottom lip. I usually use abreva on them..
Avatar f tn Hi, I have really bad anxiety and have been bugging out about one paticular symtom lately. I get a chill and then I look and have goosebump patches..then it totally throws me and I go into a panic attack..It happens on both arms and legs..and gets worse if I am really anxious...Is this normal?
Avatar n tn I had a spinal fusion S1-L4-L5 in 2004 which failed and have had severe pain ever since to the point of disability. The pain mgmt Dr did an EMG in Feb and it showed degenerative disc disease (which I knew I had), nerve root compression and neuropathy. So now he has ordered a myelogram. He said that the pinched nerve is new and he wants to find out how severe it is. He said it is one level up from my previous surgeries of S1-L4-L5.
Avatar n tn I had a lumbar fusion with screws 1 yr ago. Recently I have experienced some pressure where the screws are and the other day my wife she said I was bruised in the same area as my pain. My question is, since I have not bumped into anything, is if the screws that are inside can cause bruising on the outside?
759899 tn?1234301935 I was walking around with a plate an screws with nothing in between. Jan 08 I had the second fusion same location by bone graft from my hip. c6-c7 has a slight fusion and c5-c6 has no fusion. However, I lost my job back in July 07 and was unable to keep cobra insurance ($1000.00 a month) so now I sit with no insurance.
Avatar m tn I am 52 and had fusion surgery on a pinched nerve that I had on the L5 of the spine in 2012. I had no problems in 2013. This year, 2014, about a month ago, I started getting a numbness, tingling, pins & needles feeling on my left leg and right foot big toe. I have osteoarthritis and had fusion surgery in May on my right foot big toe that goes numb. The pain would start in my hip/buttock area on the left side and would go down to my outer shin area.
Avatar m tn I have been in pain management for 9 yrs, I suffer severe pain in conjunction with spinal fusion,cervical fusion, and severe arthritis in my left knee and hip. I have been taking hydrocodone for those nine yrs. I was recently cut off of my pain meds because of a positive reading for marijuana in my last urine screen. I am so tired of trying to find pain management doctors, and jumping through the hoops just to have pain medicine.
Avatar f tn Does anyone else on here get cold sores? I was doing really great all pregnancy but now that I'm only 6 weeks away, I have been getting one every week!! It started about 2 weeks ago at 32 weeks...I'll be 34 weeks Fri. Worst part is we have our maternity photos THIS weekend!! Jw if neone else is or has been dealing with something similar?!
Avatar f tn I had my cranial cervical fusion and decompression done last year in August at TCI with Dr Rekate and Dr Insinga did my fusion.Since the fusion I already had two revision surgeries one in December of 2013 when he removed 2loose screws and second one two weeks ago when he removed all the hardware.i still have a horrible pulling pain going as high as the top of my head starting right above occipital bone.