pain in spine after laproscopic surgery Posted: 03-10-08 11:28am
Ok here's the issue. She has endometriosis
and has had it for a while. She went on
the Lupron Depot shot (3 month dose) for
several months. She recently (december 07)
had Laproscopic surgery. That really
didn't seem to help too much. While it's
clearly not as bad as it was (she was
waking up crying in pain) she has some
other issues. We've been to several
doctors and her new issue is now that she
feels "heavy" and a crushing pain in her
spine that she gets when she wakes up.
Sometimes it goes away, sometimes it
sticks around for the day. Her body just
feels tierd and her head feels like it
weights 1000 pounds.
She has recently gone to a neurologist and
does have a follow up in May (ugh so far
off) but we're looking to see if anyone
has experience with this type of thing. We
have even gone so far as to looking to see
if she may have M.S and Lyme Disease which
both have symptoms like what she is
experiencing.
can anyone shed some light on this?
Thanks.
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RichT
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Posted: 03-11-08 07:19am
Hello Encisco,
I'm happy that she will be seeing a
neurologist. May I suggest that she
search for the very best spinal surgeon in
your area and make an appontment with that
doctor. It is always a good idea to get a
second opinion.
A question - Has she had x-rauys taken?
Also, has she had MRIs taken? If not, she
definitely needs to request that the
neurologist approve these for her in my
opinion.
RichT.
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encisco
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 10 Mar 2008 Posts: 2
Posted: 03-11-08 08:58am
Thanks for the reply.
She has gotten an MRI taken and it was
negative. Which is good and bad. Good
because it's negative but bad because
we're still searching for what this is.
She also has retinal vein occlusion in her
left eye that we are still finiding out
how to cure that. Up until now we were
told there's not much that can be done for
that and it will "work itself out". But
I'm afraid that it won't and she would
become blind in that eye.
