Two bulging disc in my neck and annular tear in L-5
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rudejude
Can anyone relate to the pain I am in? I feel so alone and the doctors act as if I am making things up. One day they are telling me what I have can be a very painful condition for such a young person and then the next day saying that they don't want to increase my pain medicine, even though I have been on the same dose for months.
My lower back has the annular tear and I am having a microdisectomy in a couple days. I am really nervous but also hopefull that this will help me get back to normal. I have a one year old and work full time and man has the past year been a tough one.
As far as the pain in my neck goes I feel like I am going to go crazy. I have had the pain for a couple years and over the past couple months I started to notice that my hands were going numb when I raised them to talk on the phone or whenever I laid down. I do not sleep more then 2 hours at a time because the pain that shots up and down my neck is excruciating. I always have a headache in the back of my head near my neck, that is until I take my 600mg Ibproprehn. The shoulder pain started about a month ago and only when I was lying down and now it is constant througout the day. The doc's say I need to go through another round of shots and this time in my neck since the MRI showed two bulging disc. I take 2 15mg Oxycodone ever 4 hours and it doesn't do much any more.
Doc said I might have something else wrong with my shoulders and hands. Any ideas? Any one else have pain from bulging disc? I am new to this site so please be nice. I haven't had time to look through all the discussions.
Two bulging disc in my neck and annular tear in L-5
Posted by rudejude
Can anyone relate to the pain I am in? I feel so alone and the doctors act as if I am making things up. One day they are telling me what I have can be a very painful condition for such a young person and then the next day saying that they don't want to increase my pain medicine, even though I have been on the same dose for months.
My lower back has the annular tear and I am having a microdisectomy in a couple days. I am really nervous but also hopefull that this will help me get back to normal. I have a one year old and work full time and man has the past year been a tough one.
As far as the pain in my neck goes I feel like I am going to go crazy. I have had the pain for a couple years and over the past couple months I started to notice that my hands were going numb when I raised them to talk on the phone or whenever I laid down. I do not sleep more then 2 hours at a time because the pain that shots up and down my neck is excruciating. I always have a headache in the back of my head near my neck, that is until I take my 600mg Ibproprehn. The shoulder pain started about a month ago and only when I was lying down and now it is constant througout the day. The doc's say I need to go through another round of shots and this time in my neck since the MRI showed two bulging disc. I take 2 15mg Oxycodone ever 4 hours and it doesn't do much any more.
Doc said I might have something else wrong with my shoulders and hands. Any ideas? Any one else have pain from bulging disc? I am new to this site so please be nice. I haven't had time to look through all the discussions.