Spondylolistheses grade 2 with bilateral exit foraminal stenosis L5/S1

Dog_Lover ginge944 · 2016-04-30T03:55+00:00

Unless the statute of limitations has already passed or if your case has already been settled, talk to the lawyer handling your accident claim. Without knowing more, I think that's what the dr meant by "medico-legal issues."

Enna1 ginge944 · 2016-04-30T09:59+00:00

Guess you are Ginge944 in the States and not the UK. There is I think a list of surgeons in the States on Spine Health website, and in England on ADRSupportUK.

I thought no doctor now prescribes Amytriptoline - I am not sure about other tablets you are on but I was in severe pain and still am if I walk too far like for 30 minutes, and I take Lyrica but Pregabalin and Gabapentin are similar.

Don't feel too upset about what he says, I too had years wasted in England where my doctor thought i was putting it on, and until i came to spain things didn't alter. I don't know what to say about these doctors that speak like this, they are so aragant (god my spellings gone to pot since i retired) there is an there is a very rude saying in England to describe them but can't put it on here. And I wouldn't worry about it, try being told that England doesn't put translators for Spanish people who can't speak English. That just about did me too.

As well as Lyrica I also take Pazital which is 38% TRamadol and the rest is made up of Paracetamol, its quite cheap 3€ in spain and you can buy it over the counter, but not so in England, dunno in the States.

I think we all know how you feel too I think most of us have had issues with drs at some time or other. The pain clinic in England the dr there told me there was nothing he could do which was a downright lie and handed my partner a leaflet on how to deal with the situation. Ba****rd I will remember him for the rest of my life and that was it, I couldn't go back to the Walton Clinic and I hear such good treatment for other people there. So its different folks different strokes. Did you go into the drs with a smile on your face. Thats what I do, but I have now changed. I don't. They think you are putting it on. I had the local pain clinic say "and when I called her name she got up off her chair very quickly! and I too have a copy of that.

So take it from me, we do get treated badly sometimes, start again, find another surgeon/consultant and start again. Be careful though, I went to a neurosurgeon and thought oh this bloke should be good and when I really got into this chaps credability, he was only clever at mending nerves in peoples heads, he was absolutely useless at backs and knackered my back up so i can't have fusion. Just be careful. Maybe come on this site UK if you live in the UK and see what people say about different consultants and likewise Spine Health for a consultant in the States.

Anne

Laura3333 ginge944 · 2016-04-30T10:08+00:00

I read it this way.

* At the moment I do not think a decompression and spinal fusion is the best thing for this patient.

There are medical/ legal issues for him to deal with as this is due to an accident.

He is requesting a wheelchair ( I,e. Could you contact occupational therapy to sort out an assessment)

Just now, I am not sure what to do ( yellow flags )

I think the bast thing to do is to try and fast track him to the pain clinic.

if they can get on top of his pain, then would maybe be the time to refer to Oswestry for possible spinal fusion.*

This is just the way that I read it.

Medical speak in notes is usually very short and to the point, and to a patient can look very differently to how it actually reads to another doctor.

A few years ago, I paid to get all my medical notes, and there are a lot, printed out.

Purely for the reason that I had tried so many drugs that made me feel awful over the years, I wanted to make out some kind of pain med record.

The notes from various specialists to each other were fascinating, and had been written in the days before a patient had any right to see their own notes, so were quite blunt at times.

What I am saying, is the messages between doctors aren't always how you read them.

Nowhere does it say that he thinks you are a fraud, or that he doesn't believe you.

He is just proceeding with caution. After all it's a big surgery, they don't undertake it lightly.

Hope this different view helps.

PS I am one of the unlucky ones who did have a nerve decompression and fusion which failed, and I would go back and have it undone if I could.

Spondylolistheses grade 2 with bilateral exit foraminal stenosis L5/S1

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