I have had 6 back surguries, None have helped me at all and I would never go though any of them again. My problem is at L4-L5 S-1, First surgury was to take a part of disc off to relieve the terrible pain I was having. This surgury did work for about 2 months. Then My Doctor said I thought we would have to fuse you. I went to Minniapolis to a back doctor that the rest of the doctors really looked up to and said if he can't fix you, Nobody can. So I felt great going into this fusion surgury. Well my wife said I was in Surgury for 9.5 hours and when they brought me out, She said I looked like I was dead. Whiteer then white I guess. She called our Son and he drove 465 miles to see me. Anyway to make this a little shorter, I had problems with the fusion right away when they asked me to try and walk over to the bathroom. I hurt so bad, I thought what the hell did I agree to. I felt like I had a 4x4 shoved up my rear end and everytime I tryed to move they were pushing it in more. Terrible, Terribl is all I can say. Never got much better. So here we go again, More MRI's and dye put in and he said the screws look like the are loose. I thought great. But the only thing is we have to wait for 6 or 7 months to go in and see because thasts about how long it will take the bone graff to heal around your fustion. I couldn'roll over in bed, Coulddn't get out of bed, Couldn't ride in a vehicle cause ever little bump felt like I was getting stabbed in the low back. Nuts, I tell you. Anyway, 7 months later took another MRI and seen that one of his screws was ran into far and it was hitting a nerve everytime I moved. So surgury again to remove the roRAB and screws. After I woke up my doctor said he could turn the screws out by hand they were that loose. Well I felt better about like I did before I had the first fusion after healing a while. Then the same problems as before only now, I cvouldn't have sex no more because he scewed something up in the front or back. He said I will work just like I did before, Wrong. So even if you feel you have the best doctor in your state or like me in the next state, Boy think everything over really good before you do anything. I wish I would have took an easyer job and stayed on pain med's. But thats after site now. But I had other surgurysin the next few months again experimental, Goning in and digging around to see if they left any small bone pieces in someplace. Then I tryed the stem unit in my back and it never did nothing. I told them its not even near my pain site and they said thats where it has to go. But they said try it, Had it taken out a couple weeks later. Then I had the Morphine pump put in and as they increased it over the next 6 or 7 months, I finally felt better, Still with pain, But I could live with it better. Now after just about a year of having the pump installed my legs got big and my waist and face ect, Went to the doctor he ran every test on me he could think of and everything came back normal. So I went to my family doctor and he put me on a water pill and it has helped some, But still backed up with fluid build up and don't pee hardly at all. So I call the pain center where I had the pump put in and talked to a nurse and after she talked with my doctor called me back and said come down here this thursday and we will run some dye in your pump and see if something got tangled up in there or what. So thats where I am at now, My family doctor said it might be the mixture in the pump, But the nurse at the pain clinic said I only have Morphine in my pump. So I wonder whats goning on now. I'll fill you all in after I return back home thursday or the next day. Good luck to everyone and remeraber think things over and over before you let someone cut on you.
