Anyone have pain disappear?

[jennybyc]

I have a bad spine, top to bottom. I've had 2 cervical surgeries and am fused from C3 to T1. Once again, I've got more nerve and cord compression in my neck but my NS doesn't think that is what is causing the newest symptoms. I keep going nurab all around my anal area and Saturday, I couldn't urinate or have a bowel movement for several hours. And I'm starting to drag my left leg for no reason. It just doesn't keep up no matter how hard I try.

My lurabar spine has been a mess for years. Started hurting when I was a child after abuse injuries. Then when I was 25, I tore the anterior ligaments throughout the entire lurabar spine and pulled it badly half way up the thoracic, herniating 6 disks at the same time. I spent a year on my back.

Anyhow, I've gotten so used to bad back pain that I simply assumed it would be with me forever and my NS said the same thing...way too unstable to operate on.

Then about 18 months ago the pain simply disappeared. I thought maybe my medication for rheumatoid arthritis shut down the arthritis and that is why it felt so good. But that wouldn't make the nerve compression feel good, I don't think. RA drugs don't cure sciatica.

But I was happy! I didn't care why just that it happened at all. No one has done an MRI since this happened.

Then it dawned on me today......is it feeling so good because the compression has gotten so bad I don't feel the pain anymore? I had no pain in my neck/arms/shoulders/upper back with my herniated disks and cord compression in my neck either. It too had disappeared. My MRI listed every single spinal nerve in my neck(from C3 to C7) as severely or very severely compressed and 4 levels of cord compression. Is that why they no longer hurt?

Has anyone else had their back pain suddenly disappear like this and what was the cause...good or bad.

Jenny

 

[jennybyc]

When I tore the ligaments that hold the spine together, I permanently destabilized my spine and at that time, there was no way to treat it except to wire the entire spine together. I chose to use my tried and true methoRAB of PT and meditation and special things I did at home...I always had to try to keep my lower back straight so the ligaments would heal tighter. That meant sleeping on my sides with my knees pulled up for a full year and when sitting, had to sit cross legged and then pushed my spine backwarRAB. I had to avoid walking if at all possible. Crawling was preferred so I could push my back up like an angry cat. I did all of this for 1 full year with a 1 year old. And it worked. That 1 year old is now 34.

But it appears something very strange is going on. I have no pain yet I have the symptoms of a major problem. And what I'm asking of others is if anyone has gotten to that stage where pain disappears as the nerve compression is so great that it cuts off pain signals but still allows some function?

When I discovered the problems with my neck, I had no pain and was working 12 hour days. But I was walking like I was drunk(spastic gait), was dropping things all the time(Clumsy Hand Syndrome)and at times, could not get my thighs to move forward. And my toes were somewhat nurab. That was it. The only way I knew I was in trouble was I was shoveling heavy wet snow and after about an hour of doing this, felt my entire body go nurab from the neck down. That prompted the MRI that shocked everyone.

So now I wonder if the same thing has happened with my lurabar spine...that the lack of pain is the final symptom of the spine in major trouble? I have no idea....that's why I'm asking.

Jenny