Joined: 14 Nov 2003 Posts: 4 Location: South Dakota
Help...i Just Had Surgery & My Sciatica Is Back! Posted: 11-14-03 12:40pm
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!!!
tracy
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lINDAp815
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 28 Mar 2004 Posts: 6 Location: atlanta
Posted: 03-28-04 15:09pm
That's what happened to me and it was
finally discovered by a physical therapist
that it was my saroiliac joint.
Do a search on the forum on that and find
other things i've written to folks.
Check out www. Kalindra.Com
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scotti2000
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 01 May 2004 Posts: 49
Posted: 05-02-04 12:39pm
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.
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algosdoc
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 23 Mar 2004 Posts: 186
Characterizations Posted: 05-27-04 16:58pm
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.
