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Hi all, little update :D

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JudeR
JudeR

Hi everyone

Just a little update from me again. What comes to mind first is the phrase \"and I was doing so well\" :lol:

Up until a week last Tuesday, my recovery from my microdiscectomy in May was going quite well, the pain in my back/left leg/foot had virtually gone, I was off all medication and I just had some numbness left in my leg and foot which I knew was going to take a lot longer to recover.

But a week last Tuesday I woke up with pain in my back which then spread to my right buttock (like a cramping pain) and now it's moving down my right calf.

Rang the hospital and they're sending me for an emergency MRI scan so I'll keep you posted.

Love and gentle hugs to all you fellow sufferers

Jude xxxx

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  • Guest
    Guest

    Posted

    Hi Jude,

    Fingers crossed for you that it is just a blip on your road to recovery. Good news though that you were able to arrange a scan so quickly. Have you had your post surgery check up at the hospital yet? You must be due that about now.

    Hopefully it won't be a case of \"here we go again\". The good news is that you are far more aquainted with the system now. Have you got some meds left over or are you trying to resist???

    Best wishes

    TFU

  • JudeR
    JudeR

    Posted

    Hi TFU

    Thanks for replying. Yes I had my post-op check last month and everything seemed to be going so well.

    I've been taking cocodamol that's all, I don't want to go back on Gabapentin if I can help it just cos I know it's so strong. The nurse, lovely woman, rang me today to say that my consultant is on leave this week but I should hear something next week about a scan date.

    I've been resisting the cocodamol too cos they space me out a bit but the nurse said to take those in the morning and take paracetamol teatime and bedtime and then I might not be in as much pain in the mornings. Sounds like a good idea to me so I'm doing that today.

    Thanks for asking though. How are you doing?

    Love n hugs

    Jude xxx

  • Guest
    Guest

    Posted

    Hi Jude,

    Are you feeling any better now?? I guess you can't get too drugged up on the co-codamol because of needing your wits about you looking after the kids. Just take it easy.

    I'm okay although it seems a week doesn't go by when I'm not at the hospital for something. The results of the urodynamic tests came back and confirm that I have no sense of a full bladder. As you know since the day of the first op I have lost all desire/need to go to the loo. Because the tests are so accurate and scientific they know now I am not lying. Which is good because I am suing them!!! I have written to the Consultant Urogynaecologist with a very specific list of questions....what is this condition called, what could have happened, treatment, prognosis etc. I am supposed to go back again on 21 August for more tests. Apart from that, during the first op they also managed to break one of my teeth with the anaesthetic tubes. I had it taken out in hospital about 8 weeks ago, but rather rarely there was a complication, a connection (basically a hole) from my gums to my sinus and I have been quite unwell with it. I am now on my third course of different antibiotics and have been back and forth from the hospital to see the Consultant at least once a week as the infection is quite bad. The Consultant, a Maxillofacial Specialist, now wants to refer me to an ENT Consultant. Have been told I may need another op to sort it out. I have hardly been to work in the last four weeks, in for a few days, when the antibiotics have done a good job, and then off again when it all flares back up. As this is all indirectly to do with the first op, it will be a part of my legal claim. The Maxillofacial Consultant is however concerned about any possible knock on effects, either way, relating to the earlier CSF leak and wants me to talk to the neurosurgeon about this latest development, but as I'm changing hospitals it's not that easy. I'm guessing my immune system has taken something of a battering from the ops and infection (suspected meningitis) back in December. The new hospital have cocked up the booking and I have a date for mid October, but I think that may be brought forward. The problem is that I wanted something that would be completely unbiased, which is why I got my GP to write to the new hospital, but it would seem that it has turned into a \"mates referral\" between the new neurosurgeon and the old one and now I'm not sure what to do. If the new one is unlikely to be honest and speak out about the botched surgery, then what is the point?? So I'm not sure how to proceed from here. I've already had one \"mates referral\" between my old neurosurgeon and one of her colleagues at the same hospital. Not only did he make it clear right at the beginning that he wouldn't discuss anything from the past only how to help me going forward, but he also lied about the results of the latest MRI results. Little did he know I had a copy, then when I read out the results to him he was all \"em, er, yes, right, sorry, er, yes I must have missed that\". Yeah right. And I think I will just get the same now at the new hospital, as I know for a fact it has turned into a \"mates referral\".

    Anybody else had problems with a \"mates referral\". Quite disgraceful really. Their allegiance should be to the patient not their buddy!!!!

    Best wishes

    TFU

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