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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Michigan
Posts: 1,424
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Michigan
Posts: 1,424
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Arachnoiditis is VERY hard to diagnose cause it mimmicks so many other spinal problems. Usually it takes a good long while to finally get a diagnosis.
We leave ourselves "open" for this tho every time we have anything injected into the spinal area. The steroids, myelograms, injections can all cause this. Thankfully, it doesn't happen to everyone! It's a nasty, painful condition that has no cure.
I'm really sorry you have this -- I hope you have adequate pain medications to help with the pain! God bless & take care. Hugs, Lee
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recovering alcoholic, sober since 7-29-93;severe depression; 2 open spinal surgeries; severe sciatica since 1986; epidurals; trigger points; myelograms; Rhizotomy; Racz procedure; spinal cord stimulator implant (and later removal); morphine pump trial (didn't work);now inoperable; lumpectomy; radiation; breast cancer survivor; heart attack; fibromyalgia; on disability.
Often the test of courage is not to die, but to live..
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