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Spine & Spinal Nerve Disorders

Discuss topics related to spinal cord injury, spinal discs, back and neck pain, osteoporosis, sciatica, scoliosis, spondylosis, stenosis, and whiplash on this forum.

Sharp pains to back (no trauma involved)

hi, For a while now i have been experiencing sharp pains to the lower back area. These pains occur at rest. They feel as if someone has me in a vice grips!!! they are jabbing pains which only last seconds at a time, (but the episode can last an hour or so) but my are they painful, enough to...

by User avatar missy

Is orthopedic surgeon ok?

Like most I suffer the symptoms of a pinched nerve, herniated disc, and spinal stenosis.   I was sent of a spine surgeon who is orthopedic not a neurosurgeon.  Of course I would have liked a neuro but does anybody have thoughts on this?  The spine guy has his own company called Advanced Spine...

by User avatar Terry

aching,numbness pain in hand and fingers/rightside

I have a numbness very aching feeling in my right hand fingers. Its worst when I am laying down to go to sleep. I cannot lay on either side because my right hand fingers will ache and my left side seems to go numb. during the day a little better after I have been awake for a hour or so the pain goes...

by User avatar leladvs@yahoo.com

questions about pain meds after surgery

Hi my mom was in a major car accicdent and flipped the truck on its top and laid there pinned for nearly 2 hours while the team of fantastic people cut her out. She was then airlifted to nearest hospital. She had fractured upper vertabrae in neck and had fusion done with donor bone (don't know...

by User avatar ayrissa200591710

Cervical Surgery Questions

My wife had cervical spine surgery in 2002 with (2) Sulzer BAK/C implants. She's been battling pain ever since. We received second opinion last week and new doctor is confident that fusion is not taking place. After surgery and she took Advil and Vioxx regularly….the thing is she stopped smoking...

by User avatar Guest

Anterior Cervical Fusion W/ Bone Graft (installed Atalanti Plate System)

Answered by a doctor

I have read each Post! and I have written about this for almost 8yrs..I have searched to be pain free and I have been miserable..I had no choice and wasn't able to make choices, due to shape I was in after a car accident that could have killed me! I'm a survivor but not able to do the things I use...

by User avatar shellfulton

worried about diagnosis and numb thumb, painful hip

hi there. several years ago i was told i had damage to my plexus nerves, and may have fibromyalgia and osteoarthritis in america. when i went to greece, they told me apart from all that i also had rheumatism of the eyes, and spinal stenosis where the transcript from experts wrote exactly where the...

by User avatar kikiangels141012

spinal anesthesia during delivery

Hello! I have entered the ninth month of my pregnancy and I can't help myself with the fear of delivery pain and there I have a friend that advised me to try with spinal anesthesia during delivery. I thought I would do anything just to avoid this delivery pain but on the other hand I am also afraid...

by User avatar cheri19437

Common spine disease in people with MS?

I have been told by a friend that this is a good website to look at for health information, so here I am! I am in need of some info around multiple sclerosis - to be specific, I recently heard that there are some spine diseases that people with multiple sclerosis are more prone to. Which are these?

by User avatar gabriele674179823

How do you manage to sleep with your back braces?

Hi, good people. I was diagnosed scoliosis. I will probably have to wear back braces. I will adjust somehow, but I wonder how I will be able to sleep with this. What did you do when you were supposed to sleep with this thing on your back? I would gladly hear out your experiences.

by User avatar ransom167862243