Hello everyone my name is Skott and I am a 33 yr old man that fell 35 feet and lived to tell the tale. Unfortunately, the sudden stop at the end of my free fall caused a Burst fracture of my L1 Vert. Four years have passed and things are getting worse. Sitting here is too painful for example...(break time be back in 20 minutes, I hope) So, Sitting up Lifting Bending Stretching all aren't terrible at first but after a little while the pain starts and just keeps getting worse...and this is after getting my nerves (burnt) radio frequency something or other.....a procedure to deaden my nerves...So, I take pain medication and recently told one of my Doctor's ( the prescribing Doc) about my pain and the changes in my living situation ( recently moved out of my parents house...now I get to do everyday tasks that cause pain to me) He went into what I think is a standard speech about people abusing pain medications and he did increase my daily dose but I wonder if I am taking the right meds for my pain. I take percocet 10/325's. We can talk about that later. I saw my spine specialist who is also my pain doctor. And he was alarmed at the pains I was describing and he ordered an MRI. So, at the MRI everyone was taken back that this was my first MRI seeing how I had major back surgery. [ I had my L1 vert removed...donated donor bone from a rib had a cage put around the rib bone and put into my spine to fuse with a plate and screws.] I took notice to their reactions and when leaving I got a copy of the images on cd for myself...I also have my X-rays this way I have my own stuff the Hospitals can still have their images too. Anyway, when I look at the images I think in 1 set there are clear images of fractures in my L2 L3 and L4 they look like the go 1/2 way through each from the spinal cord toward the middle. To say the least I am worried. I do not know however if the image is current or they are healed fractures that are visible. I am not a Doctor...So, I got on the internet to compare images. I couldn't find what I needed but I found this site. I am now having throuble sitting up again. I want to finish but the pain will get too bad then it won't get better so I have to stop there. I have other things I want to discuss. but that is my intro I might have gone astray in my writing but that's ME!

I hope to learn a lot on this site.

Skott