Hairless out of surgery

[Christina (imported)]

Hi Steve,

I'm glad to hear you are on the mend now. I hope this is the end of you pain now. Take it easy and follow the doctors instructions to get well soon.

BTW, I'm still dealing with my back injury now for over two years. I have a new surgeon who seems a lot more willing to help and has scheduled me for a discogram next week, September 5th. From what I understand, after reading some of the explanations on the web, this is basically a test where they inject a fluid into the disks to determine which disks are the worst. I hear it's not a pleasant procedure and I'm a bit nervous about having it done. Apparently I can't have any pain medication before hand or that would compromise the test. Hopefully this will tell the surgeon what he needs to know so that I might get back to having some sort of life again. Wish me luck.

[Hairless (imported)]

Hi Steve,

I'm glad to hear you are on the mend now. I hope this is the end of you pain now. Take it easy and follow the doctors instructions to get well soon.

BTW, I'm still dealing with my back injury now for over two years. I have a new surgeon who seems a lot more willing to help and has scheduled me for a discogram next week, September 5th. From what I understand, after reading some of the explanations on the web, this is basically a test where they inject a fluid into the disks to determine which disks are the worst. I hear it's not a pleasant procedure and I'm a bit nervous about having it done. Apparently I can't have any pain medication before hand or that would compromise the test. Hopefully this will tell the surgeon what he needs to know so that I might get back to having some sort of life again. Wish me luck.

Christina, a disc-o-gram isn't too big a deal. I had it done, as you said, so my surgeon would know where the pain was coming from. They knock you out and insert needles in the discs so they can pressurize the disc to replicate the pain you normally feel. Once the needles are in place they will pressurize one and wake you up and ask you what the pain level is. They do this for all the questionable discs + 1 in random order so you don't know which one they are doing. Another test I had done was a facet block test. Maybe you've had that done. They did that before they did the disc-o-gram. Don't stress out about the tests, they really aren't that bad, but as the saying goes "your mileage may vary".

[lilac (imported)]

Wishing you the best Hairless. Get well soon.

hugs, Lilac