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Jan 05, 2011, 08:55 AM
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Member Since: Oct 2010
Location: Michigan
Posts: 6,543
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Ok ! I got ya. LOL I'm gonna get serious here, cause he's being an ***. (pardon) With the way he is acting, he's going to end up like ME - with PERMANENT sciatica -- like I said, I've had it for 26 YEARS and it's been agonizing!!! There have been times I've thought of suicide due to the pain -- but I don't believe in it, and it would devastate my kids and granddaughter, so that idea flew out the window. But I wasn't getting properly treated by doctors -- I'd had everything done that pain management could do, including the spinal cord stimulator - and that didn't work. My surgeon was an arrogant idiot who waited too long to do surgery on me - that's what made this permanent. 
Your husbands' stubbornness is going to shoot him in the foot. So he's a "macho man" -- everyone knows it! What does he have to keep proving?? That he can take the MOST PAIN?? How stupid. Tell him for ME that this permanent sciatica is the most PAINFUL thing I've ever experienced and i'd rather have a baby every day of my life than have THIS. At least labor stops for awhile.  No amount of medication has helped me --- until recently, we tried the Fentanyl patch along with Methadone -- that has given me the ONLY relief (not total by any means) that I've had all these years. My feet are numb - My legs tingle, and sting, and I get the feeling of water running down them -- it's all nerve damage. So I take another drug for that. It will be the same for him if he keeps this up.
Also, he probably doesn't know if OTHER nerves are being compressed -- has he complained about his bowels or bladder??? If he has, there could be an emergency. If he EVER loses control of one or the other -- or else if he CAN'T use either one or the other --- he may have cauda equina syndrome which is considered an emergency!! That's where the nerves to those areas are being impinged, and those organs can't perform (bladder/kidney/intestine). If he truly had this, surgery MUST be performed.
He's doing untold harm to himself. Show him this post if you like, but he's asking for BIG trouble. Pain is a symptom of trouble - it's not there for kicks. Although he NEEDS a kick. LOL He's gotta cut back his hours, and let the people who are SUPPOSED to do the work, DO IT. He can't save the world. Sheesh. Best of luck, and please keep me posted, will you? Hugs, Lee
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