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Is there any relief OTHER then surgery for a herniated disc in lower back?

  • Posted on September 9, 2010 at 9:21 am

I’m sure you’ve all heard the “ouch my back” complaint from someone before.
Well – I sure hope you never rolled you eyes because life has a way of paying you back.
I never believed in the severity of back pain UNTIL this past July when I fell carrying my 10 months old daughter on our Friends wet deck.
I landed on my right hip and apparently herniated my L4 L5 disc.
I have been in AGONY every since.
My family doctor doesn’t seem to believe me or something…as she just tells me to relax and take it easy. I go for acupuncture and they say – don’t exercise, I go to pyshio and they say do exercise, I go to the chiro and he says exercise moderately only.
I’m being told so many different things.
I spent all day at emerg last week and they gave me Oxycontin. How ANYONE can take that stuff is beyond me. I started hallucinating, or though i was.
I am going for a cortisone shot in 2 weeks and have been told my only other option in surgery. Please share your pain management secrets with me.
I have a 16 month old I can’t pick up….a husband I can’t be intimate with, a house I can’t clean and a job I can;t do!
Someone please help me! I don’t want surgery!

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