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Treatment for Arthritis of the Spine



Dr. David Fairleigh speaks on arthritis of the spine, along with causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment options offered and recommended by Gulf Coast Pain Institute.
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  1. I have had 4 surgeries since 2010 and still in pain, what I found out was, once you have surgery on your spine it will never be the same and you will always have pain, I was told just try to live with it cause there’s just nothing out there that can help not injections, nerve stimulator, decompression of disk, chiropractics, months of PT. Nothing work, cnt walk far, cnt sit for long or stand just lay on my side all this comes from the type of work I do (CNA/HHA) for 25+ yrs

  2. It is true, constant and continual pain can and does completely change the person that you would otherwise be.
    I kept an ongoing list of things which
    I employed to treat the very bad stiffness and pain in the lumbar-sacral
    region of my back. Once I began approaching fifty different modalities,
    I simply gave up. Surgery has always been out of the question. Since then,
    I have tried many more different things.
    So for myself, even of those things which worked best at managing to eliminating pain, two things have forever remained in force; complete and entire relief is never accomplished,
    and anything and everything can only ever be only temporary. I've had cursory manipulative exams, CT scans,
    MRI's, as well as multiple X-rays. I have been encouraged to believe that my peripheral neuropathy and the arthritis in my back are somehow related. I tried reading the notes from the result of the MRI which I took. In layman's terms, my spine very closely resembles
    a bloody train wreck. I will reluctantly admit, that when it becomes real bad and just non-stop, I have truly wanted to die.

  3. When he said we can turn that nerve off for up to years down the road. I shuddered with enthusiasm at the thought 🥴🤤

    I'm only 32 years old but for the last 6 years I've been in denial about the feeling of my body deteriorating. I've always been able to be really hard on my body and then shrug it off and I'm starting to lose that composure altogether. I've medicated it with Kratom and NSAIDs for years and it's getting worse and worse all the time.

    I've chalked it up to getting older and maybe I'd be able to handle it better if I had an easier job but, I feel like it's worse when I'm not moving. I work on oil rigs to give a frame of reference and I spent most of my life doing full contact martial arts and cage fighting. I look fit, and I'm flexible but I struggle to get in and out of vehicles, I grit my teeth bending to pick things up and I've had to pass up opportunities to make extra money or do something fun just because I'm so sore.

    I know that I have nerve damage because I don't feel half of my toes on either of my feet and I know physiology well enough to be aware of what nerves are referring the burning/stabbing sensations. I'd be willing to turn off all of my sensory nerves if I could 😭😭

  4. I thought he would say "no pain no gain" 😆 I cleaned up so many nasty mealy bugs in my plants and now i have very stiff painful hips. I feel so sick of this when I squat or clean bending squating, and feels like I will break. Last night my right arm is tired I was just poking my phone or typing in keyboard but my right extremities are always heavy and tired.

  5. I have spinal arthritis I got epidural for two surgery ( C-section )for my kids. It cause me to get spinal arthritis I'm in a lot of pain every day .I wonder what could be done about it is there any home remedy that I can use . I live in Trinidad so I'm not close to where you are . The Institute sounds great is there's any advice you can give me please I need some relief from this pain it's been years now

  6. Dr. Faileigh is right, lower back pain has a big influence in your well-being. You’re simple not as chearfull when your back joints have inflammation. I got my numming injections today. Painreleaf for about 30min. After that the pain was wurse then before the injections. Meaning! I’m going for the heating procedure of the facet joint nerf ends. I can’t wait to get some quality of life back!

  7. I CAN BARELY WALK. LOST MY SPOUSE ALMOST 2 YEARS AGO. I'M IN SO MUCH PAIN IT'S NOT WITHIN RANGE! ARTHRITIS OF THE SPINE! I DID HARD WORK ALL MY LIFE WITH HORSES, MOTORCYCLES, COUNTRY GIRL. USED TO THROW HAY BALES ON THE HAY TRUCK! 67 AND I'VE HAD IT. A CAR CRASH DIDN'T HELP!

  8. Y'ALL BETTER UNDERSTAND AMERICAN DOCTORS USE THE DIAGNOSIS OF ARTHRITIS ON YOU WHEN THEY DONT WANNA SPEND THE TIME AND EFFORT TO PROPERLY DIAGNOSE SOMEONE…THE ACTUAL CULPRITS BEHIND THIS ARE THE INSURANCE COMPANIES . THEY DON'T WANNA PAY FOR EXTENSIVE TESTING ON THERE CUSTOMERS SO THEY TELL YOUR DOCTORS, (BEHIND YOUR BACK MIND YOU) TO DO A QUICK , INEXPENSIVE EXAM AND BE DONE WITH IT.

  9. July 7/21, I injured my back at work. 3 days later the pain was so severe, that I had an MRI. The results were shocking; 3 herniated disks, 4 disk bulges, spinal stenosis, disk degeneration in all disks, severe arthritis from neck to lumbar. I had no symptoms of back pain until I injured it. But, for the past year, at night, my legs would jerk/vibrate whenever I shifted positions….that was damn eerie…I had no idea my body was trying to tell me something was wrong. No surgery as of yet, just lots of visits to my Chiropractor, anti-inflammatory, and a prescription for epilepsy meds ( which slows the brain function down and masks the pain ) to help with the healing……still ongoing. My job for the past 32 yrs involved heavy lifting and pounding on the legs and back. Take care of yourself, people!

  10. My back pain causes me to be in tears, nothing helps nothing in not even 40 and i feel like I'm falling apart, i just beat covid, no falls no accidents nothing besides epidural 4x even laying down hurts, the pain is so bad it makes me throw up, pain up and down my spine, I'm in so much pain and yet don't get nothing from it. They see that i do not take any medication of the narcotics never but they don't give me nothing for my pain. God please I'm in tears looking for help

  11. I've been through a few procedures and nothing has helped I have pain in my upper back and I was told I have arthritis 😖 it's painful everyday all day until I lay down and I had a MRI but was told by a Dr who gave me a second opinion that he couldn't believe a radiologist excepted it that it was a horrible MRI 😖 so now I have to get a second MRI, I'm hoping for some answers to my back pain it definitely steals who you are 😖 I feel like I have arthritis in my spine and scapula 😖🙏

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