I was not symptomatic until 2 years ago and my pain has been getting progressively worse. I am now 41.
I've been on 200mg Ultram ER and 10mg hydrocodone for breakthrough.
Over the past year, I've been to chiropractors, physical therapists, and a few doctors. I've also bought a weight system to begin strengthening my back muscles. I just went to another physical therapist and I physically can not move as he was showing me. On the x-ray it looks like there is no disk space at the T2-T3, but he was trying to teach me how to learn to bend my neck from the upper thoracic vs. cervical.
The pain is constant now, and is interfering with such basic activities as sitting through a meal.
Feeling defeated by the medical incompetence around me, I would like to get a picture of future treatment and my general fate.
Do many people with scoliosis get to a point where there is little that can be done interventionally and just live with the pain for the rest of their lives?
I do not want to move up to stronger opioids like oxycodone and I've tried neurontin and lyrica -- neither helped.
What other options, meds and otherwise do people have (aside from surgery)?
ARG!
I've been on 200mg Ultram ER and 10mg hydrocodone for breakthrough.
Over the past year, I've been to chiropractors, physical therapists, and a few doctors. I've also bought a weight system to begin strengthening my back muscles. I just went to another physical therapist and I physically can not move as he was showing me. On the x-ray it looks like there is no disk space at the T2-T3, but he was trying to teach me how to learn to bend my neck from the upper thoracic vs. cervical.
The pain is constant now, and is interfering with such basic activities as sitting through a meal.
Feeling defeated by the medical incompetence around me, I would like to get a picture of future treatment and my general fate.
Do many people with scoliosis get to a point where there is little that can be done interventionally and just live with the pain for the rest of their lives?
I do not want to move up to stronger opioids like oxycodone and I've tried neurontin and lyrica -- neither helped.
What other options, meds and otherwise do people have (aside from surgery)?
ARG!
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