DrugBuyers.Com: It's Killing Me!

night_shade,

Use your best decision making when you think about surgery. I have been told and I am aware to stay away from any type of surgery if at all possible. I'm sure you will make the right decision about the surgery.

May 1st, that was just a few weeks ago. Mine ruptured on April 9th, last month. No medication's from the local physician, yet nearly a $1,500.00 bill (an MRI and a physician consult).

I had to paint houses and apartments until I could make enough money to have an OP do a consult, that was with YourOnlineDoctor, they were Great!

I received the medication's and that made thing's a little better, instead of nothing to take for the PAIN. And that PAIN was Killing Me! A ruptured disc, which causes Siatica, causes such a SEVERE PAIN, that nobody would ever want to endure.

The medication's that I received were for the chronic back pain, yet it did not cover the PAIN of a ruptured disc. Yet, they increased the count of 1 of the medication's, and that was Very Important.

Just side-tracking for 1 more moment, if a person had chronic back pain and were taking something for it (a pain medication) and that person was involved in an accident and broke their arm and leg, and their arm and leg were compound fractures, that is, the bone was sticking out of their skin, would you or anybody, in their wisdom, as the physician, decide, that if the patient, were taking something for back pain, then their decision to provide you without medication for the broken arm and broken leg would justifyable (sp)! And with that decision, decide to fix your arm and leg and say, in essence, just take what you take for your back pain and that will be good enough. Would that not, be disturbing to the patient?

That is, the patient is taking something for back pain, yet encounter a major, visible, justifyable (sp) injury and be provided nothing except the idea, perception, and so-on, that what is presently being taken for the back pain is enough to prevent the fixing and healing of the broken arm and broken leg.

What happens, when a person is taking some medication for whatever PAIN they may be incurring, and be involved in an MVA (motor vehicle accident) and have multiple injuries and the physician say that what is being taken for the previous Pain, is quite enough, to cover the Pain from all the injuries incurred in the MVA. I found that quite disturbing and negligent.

Yet, to move on, to you responding about your ruptured disc, I am sorry to hear about it. Mine caused so much PAIN, it was Terrible. Now, that 1 and a 1/2 months have passed (8 weeks), I have some medication's, a foam mattress, a back massager/heater, and am very careful about fast/quick movements, that the disc must be in better shape. I feel better, I can get out of bed a little faster, I get up out of the chair with more weight bearing on my affected side, and so-on. In other words, it is getting Better. It is not just the medication, yet it is an effort by me to try to strengthen those back muscles and make it better. It is not healed, not at all, and when I move a certain way, it is almost just a painful as before, so I take more care in the way that I move and what I do to try to make the injury better.

I was told that thing's of that nature, do not heal overnight nor over a month, yet may take many month's to heal, and I was just wondering how much time it took for others to regain their respective health status, that they once had before their back injury.

Thanks for Responding,

Sincerely,

Snickers

Edited by snickers (05/25/04 02:46 PM)