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Q: Help...i Just Had Surgery & My Sciatica Is Back!

asked by: superstar70 on November 14th, 2003

New User

I had a hemilaminectomy on may 29, 2003...I was excited as all my leg pain was gone...At last I was free!!! I started my new rn job on july 12, 2003, I just graduated may 10th, 2003...I was ready to conquer the world!!! Fast forward to this week...11/10/03...I started showing signs of leg pain, numbness and my life flashing before me. I am scared to death as I cannot go through what I went through before. I am in medical debt already and I cannot afford to quit this very good paying job but on the other hand it is killing my back which in turn started the sciatica pain all over again. I don't know what to do, I feel like I should know what to do as I am a nurse. I am considering accupuncture...Does anyone have any advice for me before I go off seeing yet another doctor or trying accupuncture??? I am scared out of my mind and slowly becoming depressed again...I just lost 20 lbs from eating right and exercising...I need to lose another 20 but I think the exercising is aggravating my back as well...Help!!! Crying or Very sad

tracy

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lINDAp815

replied on March 28th, 2004

New User

That's what happened to me and it was finally discovered by a physical therapist that it was my saroiliac joint.

scotti2000

replied on May 2nd, 2004

New User

Unfortunatly it happens after the surgery, infact, it happens so often that there is a syndrome called "failed back surgery syndrome" look it up. After the butchers cut into you they leave it alone and when the body starts to heal from the surgery it leave scar tissue at the site of the handy work. They will probably tell you the same thing I am and will add that by doing more surgery, it could get worse. I am really sorry that this has happened to you, grateful that this site exisit so people can learn from others mistakes. Before you allow anyone to inject something into you or cut you up.... Do some research. We are all responsible for our own health and there were less invasive care you could have tried. I am a chiropractor, the ones the surgeons tell people not to see, but have have 90% of the people that came to see me go on to have healthy happy lives with out drugs or surgery. If this message or others I write seem harsh it comes from my frustration of seeing people act before they educate themselves.

algosdoc

replied on May 27th, 2004

Experienced User

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The tacit assumption of chiropractors that surgeons are "butchers" demonstrates an extremist uneducated view of medicine. The assumption that chiropractic would have solved all the ills of the world for people who have disc herniations has no basis in fact. The development of scar tissue can occur with or without surgery since the cytokines released by an injured disc can cause intraneural scar. The presence of scar tissue however does not have a direct correlation with pain, therefore all scar tissue in the spine does not produce pain.

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