Thanks mate
Will keep you informed - keep Smiling
CA
CA, I will say if you explain to another doc how your repair was on account of a screw coming loose and the situation created the MRSA infection, and yet he doesn't seem to want to do anything, then ask him for a vest or brace that can be positioned so as to keep that pressure off like your towel or movements do, and also since you've been on pain meds a while, ask them to throw someting on top of it and/or increase the meds you're on. They need increasing from time to time. I take an opiate and later had to get on Lyrica to tame the pain, altho right now NEITHER is helping me, and like you, the neuros seem to think it's all OKAY that I'm miserable. SIGH. Well, good for you planning on seeing the doc and telling him about the previous repair, becuz apparently something has given way from the original surgery, and could be it has happened all over again. GG
Will do.
as i am sitting here now i can pull the muscle away from area and it goes like that literally.
But i will see Neurologist and explain the situation.
Personally if i can do this myself with my hand a towel tonique then surely this can be recipricated in surgery or something else.
Like i said have tried the Deep tissue massage and that just spread pain and then returns.
I just want to stop taking pain killers as its been three years now and it cannot be doing my insides any good.
Regards
CA
Sounds to me something very similar to your first repair, where you had infection in your spine and they replaced a screw. This seems to me to be an identiclal situation, where all that hardware that was originally put in there, since one part goofed up, then it makes perfect sense another part has. And when you put on top of that how you can pull your spine into a painless position with a towel, why, I should think an open-minded orthopedic surgeon would be willing to have a look-see. It would be great if you could find the one who worked on you before when you had the MRSA infection. Also, just as a tip, I wouldn't tell a doc to remove anything, as you have been doing, becuz THAT may be what they object to, not necessarily another mechanical failure of some kind that needs shoring up.
You must be proactive and inform whatever docs you see from here on, like the neuro you are about to see, that you had a previous "repair" surgery and had the MRSA and a loose screw, etc., and perhaps this is a similar situation. They must know about that other repair. Also, that towel thing means something, so I guess you might throw that in there. But a lot of times, for some reason, docs just don't have the time to sit down and read a file before they see the patient, and they kind of fly by the seat of their pants when they decide what is wrong with you.
This all seems so obvious to me, what might be the problem, you know. I do not know why your doctors do not see what I see, at least as a strong possibility. At least if they went in there, they could visualize for real what is going on, and go about fixing it. I just wish the previous ortho surgeon who did your first repair could have a look at you. I have thoracic spine injury from a car accident, so I know how profound a problem this is for you. Keep us informed if you can. GG