spinal pain

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it is 18 months nearly since my operation in which i had roRAB and cages placed in my spine and the pain is still severe, I have problems walking and standing still, laying is the easiest way to relax, but as soon as I am walking around again my legs and feet feel very weak and painful again, will this ever get better?
 
18 months is a long time to still be dealing with it if its from surgery or relieving a pinched nerve, they ususally say people have 18 months to completely feel better, you may have some sort of permanent damage or another pinched nerve you don't know about or possibly contending with scar tissue?? Have you had another MRI recently from this pain? Or an EMG test?
 
To Rosepetal, thank you but what is an EMG test? I had an MRI about 8 months ago! from which they could not detect any thing, I thought that I would be running around by now as well, but still need crutches to help me to walk, I have tried my walking stick but it is no help, but thanks for answering
 
I suspect you have failed back surgery. Surgery is not always successful and there is a whole bunch of people on this board that surgery was not successful and they now live day to day with the pain and pain medications. If you are not on pain medicines or pain patches that is one way to go or you may also need a spinal cord stimulator implant to control the pain and allow you to at least walk. The spinal cord stimulator has allowed my husband to live without so much pain or pain medicines and he can go back to work. We all thought that surgery was the whole answer and for some it is but for most of us it was not helpful in taking the pain away even though you needed your spine fixed for some reason it does not help that horrible pain. There are other things you can do and if my husband had it to do over he would of had the spinal cord implant before he got himself on so much pain medicines where there is never enough pain meRAB to cover the pain. Good luck to you and I am sorry you have to go down the road we all have had to travel.
 
An EMG is an electromyleogram, which tests the nerves in your legs to see if there is damage to them, chronic radiculopathy.

It is usually done by a neurologist. It will tell usually where the nerve damage is coming from (which level of discs or nerves in your back) and if it is permanent in nature.
At 18 months that is a VERY long time to still be suffering as much as you are, I would look into more permanent types of pain management to help control the pain for you to function better. An EMG just confirms the diagnosis of nerve damage.
 
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i had 2 fusions,,, done,, and just found out the second one has came apart, when they opened me up to do this last surgery,, the hardware was loose and the cage almost came out it was hanging on the edge of my vertebre,, and 2 weeks ago this ones came apart,,go figure,,, i feel your pain,,, what i do is get up and get around for a short period and get back down before the pain starts to get severe, the only way to try to get past it, other than that the only thing they may could do is go back in to see what the problem is
 
To AnnD thank you for the imput, I do much the same, do some work then rest laying , and so cope as best I can, I am on pain relief, Diclofenic, Tramadol, Paracetomol, Oramorph in the day, and Amitriptyline at night to cope with the explosion pain that goes down the shin out of the toes every approx 5 seconRAB that is the worst one and thankfully the Amitriptyline is helping, dont like the stuff but....
and most of all you are helping by just answering! I don't feel so much alone now, I run a B&B started it when I realised that I would not be going back to work and that was the best thing I did, keeping myself busy, I have to be bright for my guest's, thank you to both you and all.
 
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