Looking for people who are also dealing with debilitating back pain. I am not a surgical candidate and suffer daily. I used to be very active and find it so difficult to just lay around all day. Been fighting this for over a decade and it is getting tough to pretend in public to be coping well. Just looking for a good support group. Not sure if I am posting in the correct forum. If not please advise me where I need to be. Thanks

I see you found the Spinal forum already, we also have a Chronic Pain, Medications & Treatments and other forum topics that you might like to explore.

Here is the main page with all topics listed -
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/index.php

scorpette,

It is great to have you come and be with us. You will fine a great number of dear friends to listen when you are in need of ears. Please, just let us know how we can help you out. You will find out we are supportive and relaxing place.

Please keep us up to date on your situation. Again welcome, looking forward to seeing you around. My thoughts and prayers are with you.

Darlene

Get several second opinions before you have surgery---I had 3 "Bulging discs" suffered with them for years only to have surgery in Jan this year to discover my severe sciatic pain was mostly from neuropathy....Have an EMG test before you have surgery...My neurosurgeon knows nothing about neuropathy

good luck

scorpette,

It is great to have you come and be with us. You will fine a great number of dear friends to listen when you are in need of ears. Please, just let us know how we can help you out. You will find out we are supportive and relaxing place.

Please keep us up to date on your situation. Again welcome, looking forward to seeing you around. My thoughts and prayers are with you.

I will look into the posts and links suggested. It's so nice to find like minded ppl who understand what pain does to a person. I am on day 4 after RFA 5 levels and I think it went well. Pain seems to be mostly bruising where needles were positioned for the burns. Hoping for some much needed relief. This is a new Dr. and I am optimistic at this point. Thank you again and where do you go mostly to converse together?

I am not sure how this works but looking for a chat room or forum to converse with others about back pain issues. A support forum , if you have it...Thanks again.