hello girls..... besides my ic, i have

**shennan** · 12-29-2004, 11:49 AM

a L-5-S1 posterior annular disc tear and L4-5 and L5-S1 facet arthrosis.

anyone elses have these problems?

i got a home if unit from my physical therapist.

i think the facet arthrosis is osteoporosis/arthritis?!

anyone?

thx...

shenna

from ic and all the pain meds and now this disc/back stuff.

what else????

**Katrina** · 12-29-2004, 04:36 PM

Wow Shenna sounds like a lot of pain. So sorry. That isn't a problem I hear around here a lot but suffering sure is....

Sure hope your treatment is helpful!

vm · 12-30-2004, 08:41 AM

Shennan - Are you the one who spoke recently about being referred for an MRI to check your spine, etc.?

**shennan** · 12-30-2004, 11:44 AM

i am going for another mri for the upper cervical spine next tuesday.

shenna

thx kim and katrina.

vm · 12-30-2004, 11:46 AM

Well, I hope it is something that can be treated so that some of your discomfort will go away.

**shennan** · 12-30-2004, 12:31 PM

they want to inject steroids into my back...

i have to get an okay from my urologist. i only have 1 1/4 kidneys.

damage from vesicoureteral reflux as a child.

i am scared to get injections into my back.

i am having the second mri because i am having numbness in my right arm/hand/fingers. it feels cold and aches.

they can also do nerve blocks for my disc tear and arthrosis.

i think the arthrosis has something to do with the p-substance--like ic.

gonna search more, but my arm hurts and it is hard to type. i am right-handed, but i use the mouse on my left hand. it helps a little...

the two conditions are seperate, though.

of course, i have the ic and heavy scarring/fibrosis in the bladder.

i do have an interferential home unit, which is nice, and it does help with the pain a little, in my back. my arm and bladder don't really get relief. still going pee-pee 20-30x a day. get terrible heachaches from detrol/ditropan/ib stat spray. the belladonna liquid drops seem to work the best, except when i od on the drops--makes me high.

shenna

**mary124** · 12-31-2004, 04:29 AM

Yes, I had to have back surgery in 1998 due to this. I had a CT of the cervical spine earlier this month, because of some other problems, thankfully things were "normal" for what they were looking at, but my disks in my upper back (I think its the area of C4-6) is giving my problems, having sharp pain in the neck and head, they are going to start to give me steroid injections soon, but they have to check with my cardic doctor to make sure my INR is ok.

**shennan** · 12-31-2004, 06:42 AM

i am too scared to do the steroids. don't know what to do?

my if unit does help with the pain in my abs and back.

my ss interview is on the 18th. don't know if my back thing will help?
it may not even matter. who knows?

i guess i will have to wait and see what happens with the other mri.

mary, i have mitrol valve prolapse (floppy valve,) too. wonder if i will have to take more anitbiotics? lol...

good luck, mary!!

troy got half a day today at the dept of housing.
weeee....
you must have taken the day off?
nice and warm today.
the

's are running around outside.

shenna