Q: Help-spinal Block Causing Back Problems?
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Chinarose
on March 11th, 2004
New User
I had a partial hysterectomy 10 months ago. I was given general anestesia and a spinal block. I was heavily sedated when they gave me the block so I don't remember much. But I remember first a sharp pain that made me jump and then the anestesiologist said I was going to have to repossion myself. (i don't remember exactly what he told me to do.) in the recovery room I laid there in extreme pain. Not in my stomach where I had been cut open but in my back. I felt like my back was arched the whole time. Ever since i've had back pain in my upper lower and lower back.Sometimes when I lay down on my back I have pain and it feels like my back is arching though it is not. And sometimes when I bend over I get a sharp pain in my back. Then it hurts everytime I bend over for days and sometime when I try to pick up things like a gallon of milk(and i'm not even bending my back). I wake up with back pain. What is wrong? I think something went wrong with the spinal block. And is there anything that can be done about it? Also what tests could a doctor do to find out what could be wrong?Thank you for any information you can give!
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