A little about myself....
I am 28 years old, married 8 years, & have 2 beatuiful girls ages 10 and 4. I have been an LPN for the last 7 years. I have 2 dogs, and a cat that showed up on our portch and we took her in.
4 years ago I injured my back(not sure how) and had 2 herniated discs. Consulted with a neurologist and he recommended surgery. I had a 2 level microdiscectomy. I did pretty well for approximately 10 months after surgery, went back to work, had minimal pain. Then the pain came back, and I was having trouble with my left leg, which was the side affected by the herniated discs. I ignored it for quite some time. Taking Ibuprofen, tylenol and vicoden PRN. It got to the point that I couldn't tolerate the pain anylonger and the vicoden wasn't even touching the pain. I returned to my family Dr. had a 2nd MRI. which showed alot of scar tissue around the sciatic nerve. He then changed my medication to oxycontin 20 mg BID, and recommended me to a pain specialist. My pain specialist has done 2 caudal epidurals, the first one worked for approximately 3 weeks. The 2nd one didn't work. I also had a nerve study done, and of course it said that i have severe nerve damage. 3 weeks ago I had a Pulsed RFA done, basically injecting a needle into the sciatic nerve and heating it up to stop the nerve from sending pain signals. Well like I said 3 weeks later I am still having extreme pain. I ended up having to go on a leave of absence from my job(I have been there 5 years) because I couldn't tolerate working. This pain has affected everything I do. Sometimes it is all I can think about. Especially on my bad days. I have decreased the oxycontin to 10 mg BID in hopes to get off of it. But I am not having any luck with that some mornings I end up taking 20 mg because I hurt so bad. I do see my pain specialist next week, and hopefully he will have some answers for me. I will keep you updated. Chell
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