r/dankmemes • u/Rise-Gearz The OC High Council • 9h ago
Recently hat this maintenance to fix pain~
Would not recommend.
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u/adorgu 7h ago
I've had this done three times. The injection itself is surprisingly painless, but you can feel the pressure of the liquid inside; it's very strange. The third time it did hurt, because it was a strong injection; I felt like my leg was going to explode from the inside because of the pressure on the nerve.
In the end, I had to have surgery to fix the herniated disc.
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u/Blueishcargo 4h ago
What exactly was the surgery's name? Did they fully remove the herniated disc or partially?
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u/adorgu 3h ago
Discectomy, they removed the part of the disc that was crushing the nerve.
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u/Blueishcargo 3h ago
Thank you, are you feeling any pain in the area? fully healed? Really want to know the details, my mom has the same issue.
Thank you very much
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u/adorgu 3h ago
It's been almost 11 years since the operation. I was 23 and had a pinched nerve for almost six months, which caused me to lose some muscle mass in my left leg and some feeling in my foot. This meant it took three or four months months to get back to something close to normal, and I did Pilates for recovery, since I also have another herniated disc that wasn't as bad at the time and they didn't touch it.
The pain in the area comes back occasionally, but honestly, I've been fine ever since, nothing like it was before.
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u/Blueishcargo 2h ago
I'm glad to hear that you're relieved, really appreciate your replies, Thank you very much!
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u/CyleTime 2h ago
Did you did you try chiropractic treatment?
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u/adorgu 2h ago
I'm Spanish, so everything was done through the public health system, but before the surgery, I went to a physiotherapist who told me there was nothing he could do, and to an osteopath who almost made it worse.
Currently, I go to the gym, doing normal routines, focusing very lightly on my core. Exercise is important; rest is very bad for this.
Furthermore, I believe that both chiropractic and osteopathy are pseudosciences and should not be recommended.
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u/8070alejandro 8h ago
Do nerves work like point to point from where they sense to the brain? Or do multiple nerves merge and the signals from all of them arrive to the brain through the same path?
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u/Pineapple_for_scale 6h ago
The worst part about this was when the anaesthetist was begging me to relax and loosen my body. Every time she tried to thrust I'd pucker up and tighten as a reflex. I simply didn't know how to relax in that situation.
Not a relaxing environment when an average sized needle is half way inside my spinal chord pushing in some liquid.
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u/HansmitFlammenwerfer 6h ago
Is that also how they take a sample from there? They tried that with me when they thought I had a stroke (it was migrane) and I started shaking violently so they had to stop. My whole upper body was shaking back and forth uncontrollably. When they wanted to try again I diclined thankfully but firmly.
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u/Pirateninjab0t 3h ago
I'm going to paste my reply to another comment from higher up as it covers your case. I've done lumbar punctures on patients like you (I'm a radiologist)
In short, yes the image depicts what happened to you. They don't inject into the spinal cord itself. It's bad if the needle goes into the spinal cord and means they inserted the needle too far in and also too high up. Damage to nervous tissues is often irreversible so you don't want sharp objects to touch them, ideally.
The injection is into the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in the thecal sac around the cord that the spinal cord and its nerve roots "float" in.
Source: I do this procedure myself, just not for treatment, for diagnosis by drawing out a sample of CSF for testing in the lab.
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u/bloke_pusher 5h ago
I was never very flexibel and when this was done to me, they harshly pushed me down, which was so much more painful than the needle. I had PTSD from this for 10 years til my body finally forgot.
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u/Romantic_little_ant 4h ago
Will have this same injection done to me coming soon, but for drawing liquid for my Multiple Sclerosis shit. Hope it's not that bad 🤘
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u/AHomicidalTelevision 3h ago
I had so many needles in my spine that I built up a lot of scar tissue, which stopped the doctors from being able to put more needles into me without doing it with the help of an x-ray.
Edit: also thinking about it made my spine start hurting again.
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u/Bluelightsaber2 1h ago
Bruh I had an ER doctor give me a spinal tap basically because he had only ever done one before and he wanted to do one. Mind you I really didn’t need one and he hit nerves twice. I felt like electricity shooting down my legs.
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u/LordofNoodles55 36m ago
Got an awful headache from this even after laying for six hours. It lasted a week and I couldn’t sit up for more than two minutes without pain. It felt like I would pass out or vomit if I sat up for more than fifteen minutes. Just plain awful.
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u/turtle_five 9h ago