i’m 17 years old and have been suffereing from severe lower back pain for over a year. my doctor says its just a herniated/inflammed SI joint, but the pain is ridiculous! xray came back normal, MRI showed 3 slightly bulging disks (not the cause of my pain because those disks dont touch any nerves)
i’m on 3 different meds, i’ve tried physical therapy, a chiropractor, prednisone steroid pack, cold laser treatments, EVERYTHING!
my last option is a cortisone injection into my SI joint, should i even bother?
anyone know from experience how well they work?
do i have any other options?
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i am 21 years old and am an active automotive technician.
ive been repairing and diagnosing vehicles since i was about 14.
unfortuanetly i think i might have done something to my back
it started as a stiffness and now has progressed to constant pain and swelling in my back. i am still working because i love what i do and leaving my job or doing something else really isnt an option for me as i have taken all my certifications and come way too far in this field.
its hard to describe the pain or the exact location. i know for a fact its not a muscle because i can feel it in my spine. im constantly trying to crack my back or stretch it to get any kind of relief but it is only temporary or makes it worse… its not exactly lower back. but its not in the middle either. just alittle lower than the middle of my back.
my only problem is that i do not currently have health insurance. so an mri is kinda out of the question atleast for about 3 more months until my health insurance is back.
unfortuanetly this pain is awful and is constantly making my days harder. it seems to be getting worse with time.
sleep is a constant struggle as i wake up many times a night to either get up and stretch or to change positions.
the pain first started about a year or so ago. doctor originally thought it was a muscle. gave me every muscle relaxer he could think of. physical therapy also and none of it helped.
the only thing that helped my pain was either hydrocodone or oxycodone. i had a bottle of 15 hydrocodone 5mg/500’s from an e.r. visit and i was taking halves and it lasted me almost a month. didnt exactly take the pain away but helped atleast for a couple hours.
i was gonna goto my doctor and pay myself. i want to try to explain to him that i need something for pain. just until i get health insurance back and i can get an mri and get it taken care of for real, not just covered up by pills.
my only fear is, is that im only 21 yrs old and i dont know if my doctor will be comfortable with prescribing me hydrocodone or oxycodone due to fear of abuse or addiction, due to all the people taking advantage of their doctors or faking or whatever pathetic things people do for drugs now.
i have no history of drug or alchohol dependance and ive had the same family doctor since i was 10 yrs old. does anybody have any suggestions for me?
work and sleep are the worst times for me. its almost unbearable at times. it would be a godsend to have something to control my pain. atleast temporarily till i can get this problem fixed.
I was in a 4 car pile up on June 2008 and received 2 impacts from the back and 2 from the front. I had several injuries which I have been able to heal from all but one. I still have some sort of injury to my neck and I’m sick of doctors telling me they don’t know what it is and passing me around like a hot potato. I have had 1 nerve block injection, 2 epidural injections and radio frequency ablation, taken several muscle relaxers and pain meds, along with nerve meds like gabapentin and lyrica. I have also gone to 2 physical therapy places and a chiropractor. I am currently seeing a pain management doctor (my 3rd one) I have had 2 MRIs of my neck, both came back normal. I’m at my wits end as to what to do next and the 13th doctor I have been to has just told me he doesn’t know what else to do. Here are my symptoms: severe headache all the time, dizziness, fatigue, insomnia, dry mouth, seeing spots some of the time, left arm pain, left pinky going numb, sometimes my lips go numb, nausea, ringing in the ears, jaw pain; ice seems to help. I felt the pain right after the accident. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what it might be or tests I should ask the doctor to do? Has anyone been in this situation before and can give some advice? Thanks!
I just had ACL reconstruction surgery and i’m freaking out a little because my smart self decided i could rehab. my leg on my own and it got in the way of work so i stopped my physical therapy (i’m a physical therapy session drop-out). Now i’m going nuts because everywhere i look on the internet the people’s comments all say they never went back to 100% mobility with their knee, and sometimes it was worse because they did nothing afterward. i don’t even know where to start with exercises and i’m craving cardio and i don’t have a bike, which is what the woman had me use in p.t.. So i guess i also wanna know if anyone knows of some type of cardio that i could do also. All in all can anyone help me with this?
I’m only 17 years old and have been living with sever back pain now for a year. Started when i hit a bump sledding last year. Severe, almost constant pain in my lower back, more right side. Doctor says is my SI joint that herniated. tried physical therapy, chiropractor, and steroid packs, nothing helped. MRI showed 3 slightly bulging disks, xray showed nothing…pain brings tears to my eyes.any suggestions?
I was shot in an attempted robbery while I was working,bullet went in m chest broke some ribs collapsed my lungs,and shattered and fragments went through my stomach and intestines majority or bullet that was left came out my back about an inch from my spineI also lost 3 1/2 pints of blood .I have permanent nerve damage and suffer from chronic pain sometimes can be very severe and keeps me from working.On occasion I get relief when a docotor wants to help with the pain but not real keen on this because I have been suffering for about 10 years now.over the last 6 months or longer is getting to where it is unbareable. I just want to know what other opions I have because being on pain medicine all the time is not an option because either one or two things occur getting addicted to them or they simply stop working for a person or have to change to different kind all the time.So what can I do,my Doctor recently just suggested more physical therapy which I have not had since this firstoccured
Anyone with experience in the field and/or in the Rehab Profession is welcomed to answer. I am very curious to know what the Physical Therapy field is exactly like! I will be volunteering as a tech to a Physical Therapist and Physical Therapy Assistant in the next week! However, I am still very curious and anxious get more insight information.