Hello everyone!! My name is Kellie Divine and as you can see I am up at 4:30 am which is not unusual. I just recently had a four level spinal fusion on Dec. 9th, 2008 at St. Peters Hospital in Olympia, WA. I was confident in my surgeon and yet very scared of the surgery itself. Of course the common questions were flooding my head ...... will I be able to move, how much mobility will I lose, will this even work. Things of that nature....considering this was my now 7th lumbar surgery since 1996 however the first fusion attempt.
I felt severe post operative pain in the hospital which I know is totally normal. I am now three weeks post-op and I am experiencing a pain unlike anything I have experienced in my entire life. My thighs.....both top to outer edges are, "ON FIRE". I don't know how to expalin it other that to think of you getting a burn blister on your hand, it popping and losing the skin coverage and sticking your hand into hot water. If my wife touches my leg it feels as though it is being cut. I wake to the pain of the burn and am unable to return to sleep. It hurts so bad. What can I do??? Have any of you experienced such intense burning pain before?

Frustrated and sleep deprived

Please give me advice or answers