So frustrated...

[KurtPT]

Sunday I was going to lift my son in his car seat out of my Explorer when I felt a slight pop and tearing sensation in the area of my decompression.  Immediately after I had a cold feeling in that area similar to the feeling of an IV saline flush.  As the day progressed and into yesterday, I've been having persistent dizziness, nausea with vomiting Monday, steady pounding headache centralized pretty much dead center on my scar, and a salt/metallic taste that comes and goes.  Yesterday I started with tingling in both arms and now this morning I have steady tingling, with all the previous mentioned symptoms, and blurred vision with a numb/heavy feeling that goes from the right side of my scar into my right jaw.  My first concern has been CSF leak, but I went to the ER Monday afternoon.  They did a CT and contacted my NS.  The scan came back clear and the NS doesn't think it's a leak.  I was sent home with Zofran and Narco with the instructions that is it is not cleared up within two days to call the NS (I have a check up scheduled for Monday already).  Well, today is day two with symptoms worsening so I called them and was told to stop taking the Narco, use hot and cold compresses and they will see me Monday.  Am I wrong to be concerned about all the stuff going on, maybe over reacting?  Honestly, when I went in to the ER, I haven't had pain like that since the nurses lapsed on my meds after surgery.  I know I'm in a massive fog right now and not thinking clearly by any means, so any advice that any of you can provide is greatly appreciated!

[bigsissie]

I would be! I don't know what could be wrong but there is a chart on my profile that may help you. It is a Nerve Conduction chart and shows what nerves control what. I do think they should have done more testing at the ER. You should be really worried about the numbness. I herniated 3 disk in my low back and the first day ( I was like you the er would do nothing) I had severe pain and my legs would fall asleep, they would be numb and tingly until I moved into a certain position. The next day I woke up to no feeling in my legs. The disk had herniated out enough that they pinched the nerves off resulting in permanent nerve damage. Please if the numbness continues go back to the ER, your gp whoever or wherever you have to go so that you can find out what is wrong. Request a MRI as MRI's show soft tissue better than CT scans and it may be a problem with your soft tissues since the CT scan did not show anything. Best of luck to you , Sissie

[selmaS]

  Hi Kurt....yes u have reason to be concerned....in the meantime, keep hydrated...with water...and rest...no bending , lifting etc.....ur body may repair this on it's own....so rest, rest and rest some more.

keep us posted on how u r doing.