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What Causes Shooting Back Pain After An Epidural?
23, 5 4, 188 and I have had my daughter over 4 years ago and the anesthesiologist had missed my epidural since then I get very bad/achy back pain that I have learned to live with but sometimes it feels as if that pain shoots from my back as if an arrow was shot through me and hurts the front of me in the same exact spot lower abdomen in the left. I was wondering if this is due to the epidural. and if I should be concerned
Mon, 10 Aug 2015
Do you get any pain in the leg radiating from the back? Or pain on bending forward or squatting? If the epidural hit a nerve or around it could cause fibrosis and impinge/irritate the nerve roots exiting from the spine.
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