Is knowledge of your illness as helpful as medication
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I was getting a bit depressed on finding neither pregablin or gabapentin combated the symptoms caused by what's diagnosed by a MRI scan as spinal stenosis. But fact is that the symptoms,except for ones affecting my legs. move about that much you are baffled as to what the tabs are supposed to do. Not like those of my usual backaches. Anyway i thought learning more about my actual condition would give me more understanding why its difficult to treat, after all the medication might be fantastic for epilepsy patients. Well i guess i know anough now on how to sit and stand to relieve pressure on the spinal cord through reading what doctors like Dr.Sergio Gonzalez-Arias and Dr, John Toerge have to say about Spinal Stenosis. I do believe that learning exactly what is happening to me has given me the confidence to be more eccepting or pragmatic if you like and get on with what i can still do. Of course it will be done with bit of moaning, a saint i'm not.
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have you not had an MRI recently?
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I was never prescribed the gaped in but I have a friend who says it does wonders for her, keep smiling😁😁
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You don't seem to be at a loss for offers, Jennifer, Greece certainly sounds to have a wide variety of doctors, therapist and quacks, like anywhere else. I think, though I am not sure, that your biodynamic healing thingy goes right back to Wilhelm Reich, donkeys years ago, all a bit off the wall, but no doubt of some help to some people.
Why do you have to wait so long for a hip replacement? This could surely be the cause of a lot of your pain - must it go on getting worse for another decade?
I am starting a new thread soon for surgery outcomes for what I have, this stenosis business. There are a few older posts on here about it, but I am going to look for some more up to date ones. Problem is, of course, these sites tend to attract ongoing problems rather than people who have been sorted out.
Hope you won the match and that you are sanguine. Rob777
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So now I don't know what to think.I can't afford to keep paying 50eu to them just in the hope that this sleeping all night is thanks to them and there may be more improvement..
As for the hip thing....he asked me if I can put socks on! abd when I said yes he said lose 5 kilos,exercise,swim and come back in 10 years' time for the op.!We have a wonderful surgeon in Manchester,he has operated on nearly everyone I know and he is a very understanding man as well as an excellent surgeon so I will hopefully get to see him through choose and book when I come home and see what he says.I will bring my fat dossier of tests,MRIs,CT scans,Xrays etc!!
Yes ..we BEAT Juventus...I really enjoyed it!I don't usually go to football matches,despite being a Mancunian! but my little grandson wanted me to go and I'm glad I did. It was pouring down when we came out so the 30 minute ride home on the back of my son's motorbike wasn't so enjoyable but at least I didn't have to WALK....it's so painful and slows me down so much.Still,I do get outand about so I mustn't complain.I hoe YOU are managing too.Take care.Jennifer.