Sign up with GoogleI had a laminectomy L5-S1 in April 1994 and was saved from becoming a paraplegic. It was an emergency operation in a facility owned and managed by my employer.
Ever since, I had terrible back spams and intense pain, also limited mobility from time to time. Sometimes I cannot walk at all, sometimes only with an aid but for about a third of every year (if I add up the days) I can walk on my "hind legs" and not like a question mark.
Various doctors have treated me and the medication has always remained the same: amitryptyline 50mg at night, it once was 75mg but I had too many side effects and the doctor reduced it.
The spasms occur randomly and sometimes months pass without any ill effects and then, suddenly, I will have great difficulty even to get out of bed and walk.
Also, my neck and left arm are always numb and I sometimes drop things from that hand, as it loses grip. Twice I had a situation where my entire body would shake uncontrollable from the neck down, as if being electrocuted. (Maybe I can donate my organs to the factory that makes virbrating armchairs.) This happened way back in 2005 and never again.
Doctors don't answer my questions and I am a bit frustrated as this affects my quality of life.
Prior to my laminectomy, I was given Naprosyn that helped for the pain a little.
Anyone here have an alternative idea of how to effectively get the back muscles to stop tugging at my spine? I would love to yet again be an upright man in the community, at least one that kids can look up to!
Ever since, I had terrible back spams and intense pain, also limited mobility from time to time. Sometimes I cannot walk at all, sometimes only with an aid but for about a third of every year (if I add up the days) I can walk on my "hind legs" and not like a question mark.
Various doctors have treated me and the medication has always remained the same: amitryptyline 50mg at night, it once was 75mg but I had too many side effects and the doctor reduced it.
The spasms occur randomly and sometimes months pass without any ill effects and then, suddenly, I will have great difficulty even to get out of bed and walk.
Also, my neck and left arm are always numb and I sometimes drop things from that hand, as it loses grip. Twice I had a situation where my entire body would shake uncontrollable from the neck down, as if being electrocuted. (Maybe I can donate my organs to the factory that makes virbrating armchairs.) This happened way back in 2005 and never again.
Doctors don't answer my questions and I am a bit frustrated as this affects my quality of life.
Prior to my laminectomy, I was given Naprosyn that helped for the pain a little.
Anyone here have an alternative idea of how to effectively get the back muscles to stop tugging at my spine? I would love to yet again be an upright man in the community, at least one that kids can look up to!
