I have had this pain for 8 years now with no relief from doctors. I have been told that I have nerve damage and I am considered partially disabled. With pain that is stopping me from getting back in to the work force. I have been denied disability because I am partially disable. I am at my wits end, is there any help out there for people partial disability’s to get some type of relief from chronic pain and help finding a job for persons with physical disabilities. When you have been told from vocational rehab the reason people with disabilities don’t get jobs is that the tell they have one. I do have one that impaires my life forever and I am not considered to be disable but I can’t get get relief from pain or find sutible work. It is getting to the point I wonder if i am better off dead…..really it has been a hard 8 years trying to survive with kids and not be able to provide for them like you use to before my auto accident……Help is needed Please
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I have a birth defect that in my lower back that causes my last vertabrae to shift. I have been doing physical therapy for years but the problem is getting worse as I age. The doctor said I might have to have it fused. Has anyone out there had this done? Did it work? How miserable was it and how was the rehab?
I was hurt on the job last year, i injured my hand by tearing my legiments in my right hand, and the pain is so horrible now, a year later, and l&i are being complete jerks about this, they decided to cut my pain clinic medical help and wont pay for my medicine anymore, I talked to a nurse at the University of Washington where i got my surgery last march, and she said l&i decided to send me to a rehability center in Seattle, which is a ferry ride away from my house which if forever away to me, to take care of my medical needs, she said i will get an small apartment and $60,000 worth of medical costs along with physical therapy and medical attention including medicine, but im completely lost and they are sending me a borchoure within the next few days, but what i dont understand is why are they going to pay that much money for this when they wouldnt even cover small amount of costs from medical care in my town whats your outlook on this? anyone been to a rehab for injury matters?
I am praying but it’s so hard for me to let go of the stress and worry.I know All is WELL…You have touched Heaven for my son.Please keep praying for Nathan,He needs to go to Rehab.
Right now he has said No.Clear his mind,spirit,and physical
urges to keep using.Break all satan influence on his life.Amen
8 Months And No Improvement?
Feb 25
i was hit in the head with a basketball 8 months ago. They diagnoseed me with head trauma. i’ve done trauma rehab and i’m still doing physical therapy,but im still having problems. i am still suffering from dizziness, migranes, reading and writing, and depersonalization. ALL TESTS AND SCANS ARE CLEAN . please help me!!!!
how do they do that? my boyfriend is in jail now and he was ordered by the courts on friday to serve two months in county jail followed by 6 months in drug rehab. mind you he is not a drug addict, he just smokes weed, but he used that tactic to get his actual jail time reduced. he tried to call me yesterday collect of course, and i wasnt home but on the answering machine it says “you have a collect call from” and he said “i may be f*cked for another year”. I know he had to have a physical, is it possible that they gave him a drug test? I don’t believe he did anything since being there and he’s been there for two weeks. Prior to that he smoked alot of it though. how long does pot stay in your system? Hes a pretty big guy, bout 260 lbs. i believe it would also be considered a violation of his original probation.
During a decline bench press two years ago with more weight than I could handle, I felt a sharp tearing sensation in my shoulder and pectoral muscle. There was no bruising but my lower pectoral muscle immediately looked slightly disfigured in the armpit. Since it did not look near as bad as any pec tear that I had seen online while researching them, I felt it unnecessary to see a doctor just so he could tell me to rest. After a week or two of resting I began to do light dumbbell work and it felt a little awkward, but seemed okay. As soon as I got to heavy weight though I felt another sharp tear. I visited an orthopedic surgeon who said my pec was partially torn, but should heal fine conservatively. I spent one year trying to rehab it with a physical therapist, but it constantly felt awkward with a constant numb pain. I revisited the surgeon insisting that surgical intervention was necessary (one year post injury), but the MRI came up normal. I got three more opinions after six more months with no progress. One said that nothing was wrong, just a pec strain, one said there was a tear at the muscle-tendon junction but surgery would be ridiculous since sutures don’t hold in muscle and the MRI showed the structures appeared to be intact, and one said that even though the MRI didn’t show much he believed the muscle-tendon junction was partially torn and surgery was necessary. The final doctor is in Boston though and the expenses are extreme making this not seem like a feasible option since three others recommended against it.
I am just curious why I would be feeling such constant pain and discomfort and be having trouble weightlifting during chest and shoulder exercises when the MRI didn’t show anything? This happened two years ago and it bothers me all the time. It is really effecting my life negatively and I am at a loss of what to do.
So I recently tore my acl during a soccer game during the club season. By the time I had my surgery it was 5 months until the high school season started. I’m the best returning player and it will be my senior season, so it’s really important to me. I was just wondering if any of you know of someone who has successfully completed physical therapy in less than 6 months? And is it more likely for my to tear my acl again in the same knee?
Any information about acl and knee rehab would be appreciated.
i have to write about an unforgetable experiencs in ap english. tell me what you think if it so far
All my life I’ve taken things for granted, never thought that it could all change in the matter of days, hours, minutes, even seconds. I was young and naïve. As the saying goes, “You never know what you have until you’ve lost it”. In most circumstances that seems to be the case.
It was approximately three years ago when my mom got the phone call saying that my grandmother was in the hospital with an excruciating headache. I was in the room with her at the time, and all I could see on her face was fear. Tears started streaming down her face as well as mine, because the doctors of the ER didn’t know if she was going to make it. Moments later I found my mother packing her suit case and heading out the door without me. It was then I knew a part of my life was going to change.
Through out the next couple days the mental capacity of the family was nearly shot. Although I wasn’t by the side of my grandma with my mom in Reno, I still felt the very pain. I had just started eighth grade at a brand new school where I knew nobody. I continued on with my days making new friends but not being able to hang out or see them outside of school, for the fact my home wasn’t a happy place.
With daily calls from my mom with updates about my grandma, the news never seemed to get better. It turned out that my grandma had an abscess in her brain from an unknown cause. She underwent surgery that seemed to have gone quite well. I came down to Reno to see my family every two weeks or so, but the results weren’t as I expected. My grandma was not the same. She didn’t know who I was and I constantly had to remind her. I soon became the only person she remembered and wanted to see, though I wasn’t there as often as I wish I could be. She wasn’t the same grandma I had my entire life, and it saddened me tremendously. But at least she was alive.
Within a month of the first surgery she had a second, the purpose was to drain the excess fluid from the abscess in her brain. After nearly dying a second time, again without a real explanation, she became stable again. My family also felt as though she wasn’t getting the care she needed at the hospital, they always seemed to be messing with her medications which then led to confusion and the inability to recognize her family and friends. At one point around early November began a phase of total hysterics and inability to tell between fact and fiction. For days on end most conversations revolved around Supreme Court cases, ask me why, I don’t know. If you didn’t agree with my grandma, needless to say, she would cry. She was right all the time in her mind, but she didn’t know any better. She seemed as though she was a five year old child once again. No one really knew why this occurred; it’s still a mystery to this day.
Over the week of Thanksgiving, things at the hospital seemed to get a little better finally. My grandma was able to move to a rehab hospital and attend physical therapy sessions. I was still unsure about what to think at that time, so many things were going on, and nothing seemed close to being right. This time in my life, I thought of as the hardest. I had to be strong for my parents and my grandma and the rest of my family. I had to travel over three hundred miles every two weeks to spend time with my mom who ended up being away from home for four months, and my dad went to school and worked all day. It wasn’t an easy time.
Head Trauma Question??
Feb 23
My 85 year old grama gigi fell down stairs x mas day, had a subdural hematoma, cats scans showed new bleed recently, Monday March 3 rd, they drained the bleed to release pressure . I am worried she has taken a turn for the worse, is it normal for her to not make sense , she is out of it not herself, wants to go home from rehab, she is getting physical therapy, before they will let her go home. Maybe this is part of the anesthesia wearing off and trauma and being old for surgery? or is it something she will be permananetly brain damaged, her husband pappy of 67 years is waiting at home and bedside and depends on her recovery for his survival as well, were positive and hope for the best for those with past experience who may know the outcome somewhat to expect, any ideas , advice welcome.thye family is so busy now its only pappy being there for her constant is there hope for her recovery? I need answers for them.Thank you