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My siactia is hurting and having pain in lower back and hip some pain going down my leg and part of my foot is numb going into my toes. I know the last MRI I had a year ago I had a buldged disc in my lower back right above where I have already had two herniated discs that was surgically repaired. I also have a buldged disc in my thoracic area on that same MRI and I'm having pain in my middle back going into my ribs and up into my shoulder blade. Do y'all think they have herniated? I can't get into to see my new back dr until the 22nd and the pain clinic I go to will not order a new MRI they want the back dr to.
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amkoffee tonya43425
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There is no way of knowing. Your just going to have to wait and find out when your new Dr orders another MRI. Just be patient. Guessing isn't going to help anything now anyway.
tonya43425 amkoffee
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amkoffee tonya43425
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It's no surprise that the ER won't help, that's pretty typical. Have you been on pain meds through your pain management Dr.? Can you call them and tell them that your in pain?
tonya43425 amkoffee
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I am in pain meds and muscle relaxers for 8 months. I have told them all about going to er and my pain is not controlled and asked if they could increase my dosage or change my meds and they won't do anything different
jane75220 tonya43425
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Try not to worry. I am in a lot of pain this morning anf GP being unhelpful. Get passed from one dr to A and E and back again! Musical doctors as opposed to musical chairs!!
Have u got a tens machine?
xx
tonya43425 jane75220
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I have had back problems for over 10 years. I have used a tens unit for so long it doesn't work and I have it turned up to the max
amkoffee tonya43425
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Jane I take it since you called it an A&E that you are not in the US and therefore are unfamiliar with the prodical of the ER and it's attitude about chronic pain particularly if they know you have a pain management doctor and they know you already have a prescription for opiates. It is highly unlikely that an ER doctor will give you anything for pain for your chronic pain condition in the ER. This is because of our current trend to reduce the opiate use to help addict. It has really hurt the chronic pain patient by reducing the available of opiates even in situations that call for it. But one thing I need to point out to you Tonya is if you signed a contract with your pain management doctor which I imagine you did you could be in violation for going to the emergency room had you gotten opiates from them. Unless of course you a admitted to the hospital. In December when I went in for a stroke the one thing I was sure to grab was my daily planner of medication because it had all my pain pills in it. The reason is because I knew that the doctors in the emergency room would not give me pain meds even though I was prescribed to have them and I was waiting for 9 hours to be admitted. But as long as I had my own meds they allowed me to take my own pain pills. I just told them each time I took one and what I was taking.
jane75220 amkoffee
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Hi amkoffee I feel that you have misunderstood my posting to someone else on this forum.
?From what the op had written it appears that new signs and symptoms had developed which may or may not have been connectedto the original diagnosis. Hence my advice to get the pain investigated.
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amkoffee jane75220
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I re-read your comment and you did say that the ER would have to HELP her. (I read that as they would have to help by giving her medication) I still don't believe that the hospital will help unless it was something like cauda equina.
jane75220 amkoffee
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