Living with Back Pain

I have had one messed up year that started out as something strange to happen to me. We have a latch that is at the top of our door so our little escape artist can’t get out and the weirdest thing happened I reached up to lock it and all of a sudden my right leg gave out on me but I went on to bed and the next morning I couldn’t feel it so we went to the er and they dissmissed it as sciatic pain and told me to see a othorpedic dr. so I did and they did several xrays and said they didn’t see anything wrong and prescribed physical therapy Which I started and it didn’t make it any better as a matter of fact it made it worse, so they sent me for an MRI and come to find out I had to extremely herniated disc in my lumbar spine.

So they set up injections in my back for about a month away meanwhile I am in constant pain from mid back down both legs in my shoulders amongst other places in my body. They finally got my injections set up for my L5 area and I did that and who would have ever guessed that the same day as the injections my leg would give out so badly that I fell down the stairs and broke my right ankle to the point that it needed surgery. I felt like I was losing it and that no one was ever going to take me serious and just think i’m some kind of medical case that like all of this when all i’m doing on the inside is screaming and wishing it would all just go away.

On one my follow ups and after another injection we came to the conclusion I needed a neurosurgeon to fix me. Well about 5 weeks after my right ankle repair I was at yet another dr. office seeing if they could fix my pain and he said I needed surgery asap and set it up for a week later. I was scared to death about having my back worked on. The surgery went well but I stopped responding to pain killers, muscle relaxers, and nsaids.

The next blow is that the surgery didn’t work for me as well as we thought it would and now i’m waiting again for another mri I do’t want to be this way and now I believe that I have RSD cause I get hot pain and sweating and not to mention the fact that I have panic attacks in my sleep and during the day due to this nerve pain.

I am only 30 years old and I just wanted to share my story so that people having the same kind of pain know there are others just like them and I want to know if there are others. Anyone with any helpful info for me would be great.

Thanks for reading my story!