Originally Posted by Deidre Duron

Thank you for the kind note. Yes, I so understand you pain. I have the radicular pain that flares up to where I can were a bra, its right on my bra line. It literally feels like a boa constrictor suffocating me. Its fatigueing, you can't explain it to where anybody really conseives your pain..and then to learn how to deal with it day in and day out...mine took place Aug. 2004. I'm affraid that (being that this surgery was so much bigger and more invasive) that I will never be the same. But, I am back to work full time, thankfully I work at a law firm and upon my return they hired me my own assistant to help me do the things I can't do for quite a while. What is your first name? I ache just hearing you can't take pain meds...thats excruciating right there...I'm so so sorry. Have they tried giving you Phenagren for nausea on top of something like percocet or demorol? The Phenagren would put you to sleep I think. What type of work are you limited to now? Bottom line..isn't this not only frustrating for us as we have no control and it's so HUMBLING. I'm on Cymbalta as the pain was never ending and so awful that with two sons and a great husband I still wanted to escape this type of lifestyle. I don't know to what extent your pain levels hit, they said mine were at a 15 on the 1-10 pain scale..I was borderline going into shock, I'd shake and get cold sweats etc. I can only expect in the region of your back you've experienced the same. I am so tickled that you have replied and yes it does sound like so far you and I can truly compare life changing similarities. I'm new here so I don't know how to PM you, can you tell me what you mean by that? I anxiously await your reply. I'm in Anchorage Alaska so it is currently 9:30 p.m. here and thus I will be going to bed shortly and while I'm there charging my generator. Question: You still feel the same pain, or the incision pain, or both? I have what I believe is incision/healing pain, but its also sharp (very sharp) and along the side as if it were back to the radicular thing again...I'm just waiting for another month or so, atleast until the 4 month point before I address my concerns to the doctors. I'm so affraid that my back is never going to be fixed and will have to face another surgery, therefore, I'm praying like crazy that this goes away soon.
Again, thanks for replying. God Bless you as you are in my thoughts. This is strange that I've never met you , but the sympathy I/we feel is only bc we've been there.