OT: Query re: Spinal Stenosis

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BSTkawi636

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Anyone ever been diagnosed with spinal stenosis? I just got the
miserable news last week and am due to have an epidural of cortisone,
which just freaks me out. I've been a jogger for many years and for
the last 2 have have been reduced to walking 2 miles every day b/c of
the pain, then couldn't face even that, dammit, so the epidural
doesn't seem to be anything I can dodge. Anyone?

OB: This is one of my faves:

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Peach And Mixed-Berry Crisp

desserts

2 large peaches, peeled, pitted, chopped (a; bout 2? cups)
1? cups blueberries (about 6 ounces; )
1 1/3 cups raspberries (about 6 ounces)
1 1/3 cups blackberries (about 5.6 ounces)
? cup sugar
2 tablespoons plus 3/4 cup all purpose flour
? cup (packed) light brown sugar
? teaspoon ground cinnamon
? teaspoon ground ginger
? teaspoon salt
5 tablespoons unsalted butter
butter pecan ice cream or vanilla i; ce cream

Preheat oven to 3500F. Butter 8x8x2'/2-inch square baking dish. Toss
fruit,
sugar and 2 tablespoons flour in large bowl to combine. Transfer to
prepared baking dish. Bake fruit until juices bubble, stir?ring
occasionally, about 40 minutes. Bake without stirring another 5
minutes.
Remove from oven. Increase oven tern-peratureto4000F

Meanwhile, whisk remaining ? cup flour, sugar, cinnamon, ginger and
salt in
medium bowl to blend. Add butter and rub in with fingertips until
small
moist clumps form. Sprinkle topping evenly over hot fruit in dish.

Bake crisp until topping is golden brown, about 20 minutes. Cool
slightly
Serve warm with ice cream.

Yield: 8 servings

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
AAC(F)BV66.0748.CA

"Never argue with an idiot.....they bring you down to their level and
then beat you with experience."

To reply, replace "spaminator" with "cox"
 
I have cervical spinal stenosis.It affected 3 vertebrae, 2 of which have
been fused. Before the sugery I suffered from paralysis and my autonomic
functions(breathing,heart rate etc) were severely affected.
 
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 19:43:17 -0700, "Orion" arranged
random neurons, so they looked like this:


In 1 1/2 hours. I'm playing in the ng to keep my mind off of it :-(

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
AAC(F)BV66.0748.CA

"If the soup had been as hot as the claret, if the claret
had been as old as the bird, and if the bird's breasts had
been as full as the waitress', it would have been a very
good dinner." Duncan Hines

To reply, remove replace "spaminator" with "cox"
 
Terry Pulliam Burd wrote in
news:[email protected]:


Here's hoping for a short stay and good results for you.

--
Once during Prohibition I was forced to live for days on nothing but food
and water.
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FIELDS, W. C.
 
"Terry Pulliam Burd" wrote in message
news:[email protected]...

If an epidural is done right there's nothing to it - a modest stick in the
back and that's it. I had one a number of years ago.


--
Peter Aitken

Remove the crap from my email address before using.
 
> Terry Pulliam Burd writes:

Spinal stenosis is the narrowing of the central opening of the spine (usually
from calcium deposits due to arthritis), the opening the spinal cord passes
through. If you can still walk then it not very severe... any pain would be
from herniated disks, which almost always is associated with spinal stenosis.
It's impossible to diagnose spinal stenosis (or herniated disks) without an
MRI, so do not believe any doctor who makes that diagnoses without the MRI
being performed. Do NOT permit cortosone injections into the spine.... the
relief won't last very long nor will the body be able to tolerate more than a
few injections. If strenous exercise is continued with the pain masked by
cortisone the prognosis is a wheelchair, or death. Treat the arthritis and the
herniated disk(s). Seek the advice of a good Neurologist, NOT an Orthopedist
(they like to cut), NEVER a Chiropractor (they only treat mental disorders,
usually hypochondria, not real disease).


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Sheldon
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"Jan" wrote in message
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Much better, while my legs are functional I can't walk because of weakness
and balance problems. My heart rate and breathing are fine now.
The MD's in the hospital wanted to blame my condition on diabetic
complications and discharge me but I refused to be discharged and that is
when the Neurologist became involved.God bless that man. He was the only one
who believed me when I insisted that my problem was not diabetes
related(nerve damage)

The MD's even went so far as to send in the shrink because they thought the
paralysis etc. was all in my head.
Well to shorten things up, after a number of tests the Neurologist diagnosed
cervical spinal stenosis.
And by this time my breathing and heart rate were so screwed up that the
Neurosurgeon was refusing to operate because he feared I would die on the
table.
 
"hahabogus" wrote in message
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: Terry Pulliam Burd wrote in
: news:[email protected]:
:
: > On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 19:43:17 -0700, "Orion"
arranged
: > random neurons, so they looked like this:
: >
: >
: >>Oh, Terry. Very sorry to hear this. I hope the procedure
goes smoothly.
: >>Damn, what a pisser. When is the epidural?
: >>
: > In 1 1/2 hours. I'm playing in the ng to keep my mind off of
it :-(
: >
: > Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
:
:
: Here's hoping for a short stay and good results for you.
:
: --
======================

I second that! Hope all is well very, very soon!

We'll keep you in our prayers Terry.

--
Cyndi
 
"Terry Pulliam Burd" wrote in message
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Terry, you might also like to check the newsgroup alt.support.chronic-pain.
My husband is in constant pain from vertebrae problems and they have been
very supportive. Sheldon's correct - orthopedists like to cut; the last
one performed fusion of three cervical vertebrae. My husband is in
constant, agonizing pain and vows he won't be "cut on" again. He has
exhausted cortisone shots and they don't help. Our own doctor wants him to
return to the orthopedist and he won't do it.
Consensus of that newsgroup: surgery is always the last resort.

Dora
 
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Sheldon, you are so right. See my other post.

Dora
 
"PENMART01" wrote in message
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..
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While a MRI is the best diagnostic tool for stenosis there is an alternative
procedure for those people, like me, who can't deal with the claustriphobia
of an MRI tube.
Dye is injected into the spinal fluid and a CAT scan is then done.This
procedure has a name but I can't recall it.
 
> "Sue" writes:

Myelography ... rarely used and inconclusive for detecting spinal stenosis.
Magnetic Resonance Imaging is the only medically recognized conclusive
diagnostic tool for spinal stenosis and is the least invasive (no X-Rays).
There is no longer any reason to be shoved into a tube, nowadays open MRIs are
common.

Trim your attributions, Newbie.


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Sheldon
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>Sheldon, you are so right.

I know. I have spinal stenosis, and two herniated disks. Having
corticosteroids injected into the spinal dura is the stupidest thing one can
do, exept as a last resort emergency procedure, where one is in acute exquisite
pain and is not ambulatory, or even lucid. When one can stroll into the
medical facility under their own steam and the doctor performs the doral
injection it only proves two things, the doctor is a charlatan and the patient
is a morbidly gross imbecile.

See my other post.

I did.


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On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 14:49:20 GMT, "The Hacketts"
wrote:



Likewise!





Rodney Myrvaagnes J36 Gjo/a

"That idiot Leibniz, who wants to teach me about the infinitesimally small! Has he therefore forgotten that I am the wife of Frederick I? How can he imagine that I am unacquainted with my own husband?"
 
>"Sue"


I don't know your doctor but I do know that from the short time you've been
posting here that you are bullshit, ALL bullshit.


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