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Neuropathy,dizziness, and neuropathy.....
s.gun
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Anyone ever had lightheaded,, dizziness or neuropathy been helped by having a surgery of the spine or a Spinal Cord Stimulator installed ???This was advice given to me by a neurologist...
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I have vertigo and and often lightheaded and dizzy or an unsteady fall risk at this point
My doctor's have been reluctant to prescribe lyrica or similar analog prescription medications for the nerve pain as they see the side effects being worse than the symptoms.
For those of you who don't or can't understand...
At best my legs below the knee and feet feel like they are both wrapped in electrical fire and badly asleep from circulation loss from sitting wrong to long.
Flexing my foot muscles to curl my foot up or down causes piquant pain
At worst towards the end of chemo my legs and feet while causing great pain also felt like they were encased in concrete or made of wood and unresponsive.
A simple touch by someone to the skin below the knees can cause agony
The vertigo has interfered with my physical recovery therapy and I have fallen badly several times.
They want to bring in another specialist to treat it.
The doctors don't know of it will get better or go away.
The pain is omnipresent and unyielding it never goes away.
Mike
No thanks!
My pcp put me on Gabapentin last year and that helped a lot.
I had the neuro stimulator implanted in my spine on September 25 which also helps.
I'm scheduled to have a discectomy on March 22 and hopefully that will take care of it for good.
My spine from T1 to L5 has one thing or another wrong with it including seven wedge fractures starting back in 1977. I've taken Norco's since Sept 1999 and Fentanyl patch since Oct 2016 and I sure hope you don't follow this path.
When loaded up on pain meds I have periods of time and limited activity were the pain is in the background and I can sleep some or move around some.
So maybe over the next 6 months as I do physical recovery therapy it gets better and I have some normalized time before the cancer comes back and we start chemo again and I die miserably.
I just keep trying to keep moving.
I have the visiting nurse and a wound care specialist tomorrow followed by therapy and I am ashamed to admit I am greatly not looking forward to it - wish I did not have to go through it.
I am dreading the pain and nausea and exhaustion that will follow.
Mike
Best advice I can give you was given to me by a prominent Neurosurgeon... (think, Denver Broncos and other pro teams)
Anything involving the brain, nervous system, spine, nerves or neuropathy...
"Get a 2nd, 3rd and 4th opinion!!! Then have a 5th, 6th and 7th opinion evaluate the first (3) opinions. THEN...don't do anything at all...until you have NO other choice! Seriously!!"
He is a wise man.
Spot on FCD
I know several people who had spine surgery and everyone regretted it and in most cases made things worse.