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DanceRat
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Thanks all - I hope you can help me with this.
This is all new for me, I have not had to deal with this before. I think the last time I had to take pain meRAB was when I had lasik performed in 2001, and I've never in my life had to take so many for so long. I have no idea why people would want to take these if they didn't have pain, the digestive side effects are awful, even with colace and dried fruit. It's horrible and a blessing, all at once. I've always been healthy as a horse until this thing happened.
Back to being an anomaly: As far as how I am feeling painwise: I had acute severe sciatic pain that got steadily worse from March 16 through April 8 until I was pretty much in a constant state of 7-9 (on a scale of 1-10) and then it crescendoed the afternoon of April 8 when I inadvertently slipped with my cane and put all of my weight onto my left (affected side). I felt a terrible 11+ shock of pain go through my spine, to the point of me almost passing out from the pain. After several hours of laying down, it appeared that the pain had been reduced to much less of what it had been before, down to a level 5-6, and replaced by nurabness through my thigh, buttocks and groin area on the left side. I also seemed to have developed left lower back pain, dull rather than sharp, like a deep bruise. I would much rather have the nurabness than the pain.
On the advice of Dr. K**, I went to the ED but did not get to see a neurologist that day, but ED Dr. S*** seemed to think that I was okay to let go home. I had good reflexes, motor skills and control of my bowel and bladder. I also was going to see Dr. K** the next day for my ESI. I had my epidural steroid injection 7 days ago and am experiencing the pain that Dr. K** had forewarned me to expect, nothing out of the ordinary, and easily controlled by oxycodone, which I took .5 tablet every 4 hours for but have now tapered down to just 2.5mg in the a.m. I had a good result from the first dose of prednisone that he prescribed for me, back at the end of March - at least for the first 3 days, so I have a pretty hopeful attitude for the injection(s). I have a neuro consult on the 29th, just in case.
But I asked Dr.K if he had any patients tell him what had happened to me; i.e. severe leg pain and then one short burst of REALLY severe pain and then nurabness with the pain mostly gone. He said he had never remerabered a patient telling him that before. I will ask on this board if anyone here has ever had that happen? I don't have any motor issues or bowel or bladder problems. I have a little weakness, but I can feel my calf, feet toes, no nurabness there. It's only in my thigh, buttocks, and inner groin area - just where the pain was before. It has been 10 days since the hellish pain has stopped and the nurabness started. I'm afraid the pain will come back, but maybe it won't.
Any ideas?
This is all new for me, I have not had to deal with this before. I think the last time I had to take pain meRAB was when I had lasik performed in 2001, and I've never in my life had to take so many for so long. I have no idea why people would want to take these if they didn't have pain, the digestive side effects are awful, even with colace and dried fruit. It's horrible and a blessing, all at once. I've always been healthy as a horse until this thing happened.
Back to being an anomaly: As far as how I am feeling painwise: I had acute severe sciatic pain that got steadily worse from March 16 through April 8 until I was pretty much in a constant state of 7-9 (on a scale of 1-10) and then it crescendoed the afternoon of April 8 when I inadvertently slipped with my cane and put all of my weight onto my left (affected side). I felt a terrible 11+ shock of pain go through my spine, to the point of me almost passing out from the pain. After several hours of laying down, it appeared that the pain had been reduced to much less of what it had been before, down to a level 5-6, and replaced by nurabness through my thigh, buttocks and groin area on the left side. I also seemed to have developed left lower back pain, dull rather than sharp, like a deep bruise. I would much rather have the nurabness than the pain.
On the advice of Dr. K**, I went to the ED but did not get to see a neurologist that day, but ED Dr. S*** seemed to think that I was okay to let go home. I had good reflexes, motor skills and control of my bowel and bladder. I also was going to see Dr. K** the next day for my ESI. I had my epidural steroid injection 7 days ago and am experiencing the pain that Dr. K** had forewarned me to expect, nothing out of the ordinary, and easily controlled by oxycodone, which I took .5 tablet every 4 hours for but have now tapered down to just 2.5mg in the a.m. I had a good result from the first dose of prednisone that he prescribed for me, back at the end of March - at least for the first 3 days, so I have a pretty hopeful attitude for the injection(s). I have a neuro consult on the 29th, just in case.
But I asked Dr.K if he had any patients tell him what had happened to me; i.e. severe leg pain and then one short burst of REALLY severe pain and then nurabness with the pain mostly gone. He said he had never remerabered a patient telling him that before. I will ask on this board if anyone here has ever had that happen? I don't have any motor issues or bowel or bladder problems. I have a little weakness, but I can feel my calf, feet toes, no nurabness there. It's only in my thigh, buttocks, and inner groin area - just where the pain was before. It has been 10 days since the hellish pain has stopped and the nurabness started. I'm afraid the pain will come back, but maybe it won't.
Any ideas?