Lumbar Puncture & Blood Patch

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My daughter has experienced numbness, tingling, muscle spasms & shooting pains After lumbar puncture experience spinal headache, in ER they did a blood patch that left my daughter with sounds in her ear of jack hammering also vibration all in body Please let me know if anyone has ever heard of these symptoms All she wants to know is if she has MS

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    hi i am 18 years old and a lumber puncture has left me damaged for life ! a student nurse did my lumber puncture and put the needle in the wrong place and also touched a nerve in my spine which now makes my whole body hurt from head to toe ! my back hurts so much and sometimes its hard to walk coz the pain is so bad and also since ive had the lumber puncture i have had chest pain constantly (everyday) and also a pressure like feeling in the chest and i feel completely numb ! the worst thing i ever had was that lumber puncture regret it so much!

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