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What Causes Chronic Lower Back Pain With Loss Of Coordination?
I am a 35 year old female living in Brooklyn,NY. I moved here from Pennsylvania and am having a very hard time finding a pain management Dr, I have a history of chronic low back pain and have had 6 surgeries 2 fusions, one at the L5S-1 and one at the L 4-5 level I have been taking the same pain medication for a year plus now 60mg morphine sulphate ER and 50mg ultram 2 every 4-6 hrs or PRN EVERY pain management Dr I have seen wants to put me on lyrica and or Gabapentin when all it does is make me EXTREMELY DROWSY and I experience a loss of coordination as well as weight gain in excess of 20lbs... I don t know what to do and trying Dr after Dr after Dr when I have legitimate pain is becoming extremely depressing causing even more anxiety etc I m ready to give up! I m so down what advice if any do you have for a patient like me...who finally found medication that worked that I could live a regular life on, now everything has been disrupted and all Dr s care about is pushing the latest drug or saving themselves ? I also use chiropractics, yoga, and acupuncture
Tue, 30 Apr 2019
Hello,
As per my surgical experience, the issue is of beyond scope of medicines which has made you numb and dependent upon the morphine drugs.
The best way for you to proceed would be interventional pain management team approach where there is the best solution with epidural analgesia giving excellent results in such cases.
Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.
Regards,
Dr. Bhagyesh V. Patel, General Surgeon
As per my surgical experience, the issue is of beyond scope of medicines which has made you numb and dependent upon the morphine drugs.
The best way for you to proceed would be interventional pain management team approach where there is the best solution with epidural analgesia giving excellent results in such cases.
Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.
Regards,
Dr. Bhagyesh V. Patel, General Surgeon
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