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Re: No more golf for me????
Take it for what you want Jim. It really helped me.
Take it for what you want Jim. It really helped me.
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No more golf for me???? Update!!!
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Re: No more golf for me????
I've never used one but it may be worth a try! Is it weird at first? Does it take some getting used to?
I've never used one but it may be worth a try! Is it weird at first? Does it take some getting used to?
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Met with the specialist yesterday and apprarently the disc that is herniated is quite large, to use his words "that's a huge frickin' disc."
Basically I have 2 options, surgery, discectomy- which I am not crazy about. I feel like I am to young (32) to start cutting into my back and spine.
The other option is steroid (I think) injections into the area around the disc to help it heal faster. I would say the DR was not overly optimistic about this option, he had no idea how well they would work given the size of the disc.
So...I will be getting a 2nd opinion. Mainly because the Dr was waffling a bit on whether I should do surgery or injections. If he doesn't have a clear idea, how am i supposed to? So it's off to Dartmouth in NH for me as soon as I can get in!
In the meantime my foot is still numb and I still am taking:wink: Vicadin
Met with the specialist yesterday and apprarently the disc that is herniated is quite large, to use his words "that's a huge frickin' disc."
Basically I have 2 options, surgery, discectomy- which I am not crazy about. I feel like I am to young (32) to start cutting into my back and spine.
The other option is steroid (I think) injections into the area around the disc to help it heal faster. I would say the DR was not overly optimistic about this option, he had no idea how well they would work given the size of the disc.
So...I will be getting a 2nd opinion. Mainly because the Dr was waffling a bit on whether I should do surgery or injections. If he doesn't have a clear idea, how am i supposed to? So it's off to Dartmouth in NH for me as soon as I can get in!
In the meantime my foot is still numb and I still am taking:wink: Vicadin
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I'm going to agree with those who said to avoid surgery. Everyone I know who has had it is not pleased with the results. In my middle age years I got a type of arthritis called "ankylosing spondilitis" which attacks the disks between the vertebrae. The disks also serve to seperate the vertebrae from "growing together" into one solid bone. The ankylosing spondilitis destroys the disks (inflamation) which then start growing together with bone spurs. These pinch your nerves and you get the pain shooting down your legs etc etc. The only drug at that time that would reduce the inflamation was indocin which in 1º of patients kills the little hairs in your inner ear and makes you deaf. I was in that percentage but took the indocin because it was like a miracle. I could function again. Later new drugs without that side effect came out (celebrex) and I switched to those. When you get 50 or older the ankylosing spondilitis quits. I survived it.
Look into the steroid treatment. That sounds interesting. Find a drug (celebrex?) that reduces the inflamation and you might get through this.
I'm going to agree with those who said to avoid surgery. Everyone I know who has had it is not pleased with the results. In my middle age years I got a type of arthritis called "ankylosing spondilitis" which attacks the disks between the vertebrae. The disks also serve to seperate the vertebrae from "growing together" into one solid bone. The ankylosing spondilitis destroys the disks (inflamation) which then start growing together with bone spurs. These pinch your nerves and you get the pain shooting down your legs etc etc. The only drug at that time that would reduce the inflamation was indocin which in 1º of patients kills the little hairs in your inner ear and makes you deaf. I was in that percentage but took the indocin because it was like a miracle. I could function again. Later new drugs without that side effect came out (celebrex) and I switched to those. When you get 50 or older the ankylosing spondilitis quits. I survived it.
Look into the steroid treatment. That sounds interesting. Find a drug (celebrex?) that reduces the inflamation and you might get through this.
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Re: No more golf for me????
I was a little disappointed with the specialist. It almost seemed like he didn't know what to do and was definitely pushing towards surgery. I just didn't have a good feeling agreeing to surgery after talking with him. He almost seemed more shocked that I was up and able to move around with the size of the disc that is herniated.
Anyway, like I said we are heading to Dartmouth for a second opinion. For those who don't know, Dartmouth is one of the top hospitals in the Northeast and I will feel better going there. If they say surgery they will be the ones doing it, not the dr I met with yesterday.
I was a little disappointed with the specialist. It almost seemed like he didn't know what to do and was definitely pushing towards surgery. I just didn't have a good feeling agreeing to surgery after talking with him. He almost seemed more shocked that I was up and able to move around with the size of the disc that is herniated.
Anyway, like I said we are heading to Dartmouth for a second opinion. For those who don't know, Dartmouth is one of the top hospitals in the Northeast and I will feel better going there. If they say surgery they will be the ones doing it, not the dr I met with yesterday.
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