@Sapien

I went to the ER once for similar reasons. I sat down and all of a sudden my back seized and I couldn’t get back up. I had to crawl/drag myself over to my phone to call for help. I couldn’t walk in the ER and I had food drop, tingling, and extreme pain shooting down my left leg.

Dr was super rude. He told me “I have back pain too but I’m not getting surgery”. Ok a$$hole. I was able to finally stand up and kind of slowly shuffle to the bathroom and back and then the nurse said “the pain must not be too bad, you can walk now”. Ok, other a$$hole. They gave me opioid and sent me on my way.

I went immediately to see my back dr I had been working with and he got me into the surgeon right away. I had surgery 2 weeks later.

Point is ERs are a waste of time in my opinion. If I were you I would check every neuro in your insurance network and see if any of them have a sooner appt, and call the one you have an appt with. Tell them the new symptoms and get on the cancellation list to hopefully be seen sooner.

Good luck, I hope everything works out eventually!