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Q: Back Pain After Hysterectomy-spinal Block?
asked by: Chinarose on March 11th, 2004
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Help-spinal block causing back problems?


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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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purple333
replied on March 12th, 2004
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I don't know how to prove it but I do think something definitely went wrong. I suggest talking to a dr (maybe someone new) or another specialist or seeing someone like an accupuncturist or naturopath or chiropractor etc.

Other than that I don't know. Other than taking things that might help ease &/or heal like sam-e, dhea, calcium, chondroitin & glucosamine (in the same tablet) the problem though is that since the actual source of the pain isn't known (bone, muscle, nerve etc) it's hard to suggest what might help.
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Chinarose
replied on March 12th, 2004
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Re: Purple333's Reply
Thank you for your response. I plan to see a doctor about it but I don't have insurance right now. So I have to go to a state funded (free) hospital.

Have you ever seen a chiropractor or acupuncture Dr.?

I have not and I have wondered if they could help. (since this and other bad experiences with m.D.'s I have become a little cynical about them.)
thanks again. :d
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purple333
replied on March 12th, 2004
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I have had accupuncture, it often helps & doesn't hurt at all but of course it depends on what exactly went wrong, still this ancient form of chinese medicine has been around curing all sorts of things for thousands of years.

I have also been to chiroprators, i'm less thrilled aboutthem mainly because I have neck problems & they always want to crack my neck & i'm not having it because that can kill you if they get it one teeny bit wrong (i was seeing a medical dr/chiropratcor for my neck & a patient of his died after a treatment due to a slight miscalculation causing a brain heamorrhage!!) but lower down or on other parts of the body there's nothing I know of to worry about & it might help, but again it's not knowing exactly what went wrong so what is it that is actually causing the pain, bone, muscle, nerve, what?? This creates a problem re healing it.

Drs are just glorified (& often hopeless) mechanics & we pay them far too much heed & $$$$. We need to be more proactive. Given that there would seem to have been a mistake made by the dr, what about getting some legal advice as to suing for $$$ to obtain treatment from a dr who has a great reputation for getting things right or fixing other drs errors????
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