I have made my decision..

[CosmicPal]

I had back surgery in March 2008- it got rid of my sciatica, but I still have back pain. I need to know more about the decompression and wonder if I'm a candidate for it.

[luv]

Originally Posted by CosmicPal

I had back surgery in March 2008- it got rid of my sciatica, but I still have back pain. I need to know more about the decompression and wonder if I'm a candidate for it.

Depends on what's causing your back pain. I had it done, and it helped. Didn't cure it, but made it much better. Pain eventually went away. It's expensive as hell, or at least it was when they first started doing it a few years ago.

EDIT: I'm talking about the decompression table. Sorry, I think of decompression, and that's what comes to mind.

[badgirl]

Originally Posted by CosmicPal

I had back surgery in March 2008- it got rid of my sciatica, but I still have back pain. I need to know more about the decompression and wonder if I'm a candidate for it.

My disc has already ruptured, actually my leg and foot hurt more than my back. It is compressing a nerve root on the right side. He said he would be removing part of the bone and replacing it with either a bone out of my hip or a cadaver bone,I chose the cadaver bone. I think there are other forms of decompression without the surgery.

[CosmicPal]

Originally Posted by badgirl

My disc has already ruptured, actually my leg and foot hurt more than my back. It is compressing a nerve root on the right side.

Sounds precisely like what I had, and that is sciatica. The nerve running down the spine was compressed so that only the right side of my leg was experiencing a sharp pain- a constant freakin' pain that kept me awake and cursing at old ladies and unsuspecting strangers.

So glad I don't have sciatica...I still have back pain, but I'll take that any day over sciatica.

[badgirl]

Originally Posted by CosmicPal

Sounds precisely like what I had, and that is sciatica. The nerve running down the spine was compressed so that only the right side of my leg was experiencing a sharp pain- a constant freakin' pain that kept me awake and cursing at old ladies and unsuspecting strangers.

So glad I don't have sciatica...I still have back pain, but I'll take that any day over sciatica.

Yea I would rather deal with back pain than this burning at times, then my toes feel like they are numb and red ants eating on the bottom of my feet. There are times when I get out of the jeep after working in the mornings that I can barely walk. Back pain, yea I can deal with it, this leg and foot pain is whats causing me to be almost disabled.

[CosmicPal]

Originally Posted by badgirl

Yea I would rather deal with back pain than this burning at times, then my toes feel like they are numb and red ants eating on the bottom of my feet. There are times when I get out of the jeep after working in the mornings that I can barely walk. Back pain, yea I can deal with it, this leg and foot pain is whats causing me to be almost disabled.

I know your pain. When I had sciatica, I was working 8-5 at my job during that time. During rush hour traffic I was literally screaming and crying because the sciatica was making it so unbearable. There were a lot of mornings I had to put my right leg up on the dashboard of the car to close off the nerve, even if just for a few minutes- which seemed like a moment in heaven when I did.

Gloria, I hope this works for you...you are most certainly in my prayers. I know how it feels and I pray, pray, pray and wish you the best and most successful of surgeries.

[badgirl]

Originally Posted by CosmicPal

I know your pain. When I had sciatica, I was working 8-5 at my job during that time. During rush hour traffic I was literally screaming and crying because the sciatica was making it so unbearable. There were a lot of mornings I had to put my right leg up on the dashboard of the car to close off the nerve, even if just for a few minutes- which seemed like a moment in heaven when I did.

Gloria, I hope this works for you...you are most certainly in my prayers. I know how it feels and I pray, pray, pray and wish you the best and most successful of surgeries.

Thank you very much.

[badgirl]

Originally Posted by CosmicPal

I know your pain. When I had sciatica, I was working 8-5 at my job during that time. During rush hour traffic I was literally screaming and crying because the sciatica was making it so unbearable. There were a lot of mornings I had to put my right leg up on the dashboard of the car to close off the nerve, even if just for a few minutes- which seemed like a moment in heaven when I did.

Gloria, I hope this works for you...you are most certainly in my prayers. I know how it feels and I pray, pray, pray and wish you the best and most successful of surgeries.

The way i get relief sometimes is to lay on my stomach and pull my right leg up far as I can, it helps for a while then starts back. If I am having a really bad night, my leg starts to spasm kinda jerks and I can't control it.

[CosmicPal]

Originally Posted by badgirl

The way i get relief sometimes is to lay on my stomach and pull my right leg up far as I can, it helps for a while then starts back. If I am having a really bad night, my leg starts to spasm kinda jerks and I can't control it.

That works too. I never had the spasms though- just an unforgivable piercing pain that wouldn't go away.

I still recall the morning, long before I had surgery, when I stormed into my doctor's office and told him he had my permission to sever my right leg right then and there. I couldn't take it anymore and I was that desperate. Obviously he suggested pain killers and surgery and I took the pain killers route first, and then the surgery.

[T-post Tom]

Originally Posted by badgirl

The way i get relief sometimes is to lay on my stomach and pull my right leg up far as I can, it helps for a while then starts back. If I am having a really bad night, my leg starts to spasm kinda jerks and I can't control it.

The sound of someone on CP 'rubbing one off' could be heard in the distance. (edit: It wasn't me.)