Nerve Root Damage Unbearable Sciatic Pain

SueHeath

Afternoon @krippled sorry to hear about all your problems with your disc's and pain, i do think our body's get used to having pain. Have your Doctors at the hospital discussed pain relief options with you, other then meds ?

krippled

SueHeath said:

Afternoon @krippled sorry to hear about all your problems with your disc's and pain, i do think our body's get used to having pain. Have your Doctors at the hospital discussed pain relief options with you, other then meds ?

Hi Sue,

Completely agree when you say our bodies get used to it, those who are suffering with intense pain, build up a higher pain threshold 

For 4 days I'd gone without any of my daily medication due to the incompetence of the company who pouch up my meds, i then slipped 3 discs which intensified my pain tenfold... When I was in hospital both the Staff Nurse mentioned about how I must've built-up a very high pain tolerance / threshold due to how long I have been struggling because he'd seen numerous people with similar symptoms who had been pressing the call button for pain relief every two minutes, even while using their daily Meds in hospital

I had two epidural injections @ L4 last week which so for are helping reduce back spasms and will hopefully increase in use over time , combined with meds recently prescribed and on top of all my other meds.
I still want my legs removing or damaged nerve root removing so I don't have to feel the fatiguing, draining and one of the most excruciating, frustrating pain there is sciatic pain which drives me insane 

SueHeath

Have you looked into the lateral nerve blocker @krippled i am on the list to see if they will agree to the funding, it's a little device inserted under the skin next to the  spine.

Albus_Scope

Hi @johnmichael, thank you for sharing your tips!  This post is from mid 2022, so I hope the original poster has received lots of help now.