Suzie Q
08-20-2006, 11:58 PM
I was wondering if anyone here has had epidurals for pain with cortizone shots. The first one was a breeze i really couldnt feel anything but the second one up higher right from the get go was a nightmare and very painful. I have heard that they are ok for a while but the pain returns even worse. It did seem to help the pain with the bone spurs all in my back. But today i am sitting on my bed and i leaned over to get a pair of shorts and bammm! Horrid pain in my lower back. I have been told its from it moving in and out and grinding on nerve roots? or something like that. The pain is incapacitating(sp) and i have had this happen alot in my lower back and once in my T area. Questions: Are these shots just money makers for them because of my insurance?? what should I do? Not to leave out i have one bone spur in my neck that is protruding into the spinal canal where my doc said it is causing leaking of spinal fluid. ( original reason for visit)! The surgeon has not really addressed that except to send me home with a collar to wear. I feel like i am going in circles and I am but just a # on an insurance bill. I went to the new surgeon Dr. Sahni in Mt. Vernon IL. with films and a MRI on discs. He has no idea how to read them on the computer. And the hospital dont do films anymore just discs. *pulling hair at this point!!!* So now he sends me to another place for the injections, and takes new Xrays of just my neck. But i was sent there to get the injections in my neck and he gives them to me in my lower back. WTF? so as i lay in a bed waiting to leave i demand at this point to be explained the problems with my neck. He puts it off on the X ray tech, i get no answers because he never returns! I have to return after all this back to the Dr. Sahni's office and i demand again and she gives me two ridiculous printed pamflets(sp) and tries to explain the neck issues. Which she is failing miseralbly. At this point i just leave. Is leaking spinal fluid a concearn? The surgeon is not one to talk to you personally, i hate that. While i was on the bed face down he kept saying, in broken English "very difficult case only few docs in the world can do this". I was like give me a break! So at this point i am shelling out 162.00 a month insurance, 20.00 co pays every doc visit, and not to mention meds. 10.00-40.00 a pop! I am now depressed, in pain, cofused ( really confused from meds i was given to take), vicodin and valiums)! I have thought about seeing another surgeon and even got a referrel from my doc. So any input and advice would be helpful. Thanks