Help - My friend has a Slipped Disc?!


Question: Help - My friend has a Slipped Disc.?
My friend has a problem with her lower back, occasionally (and without warning) a disc in her lower back slips and she is left practically paralyzed and in severe pain until her muscles loosen enough for the disc to correct itself.
She has spent countless hours on numerous occasions, lying on her bed or leaning against a dresser in pain. She has tried practically EVERY pain killer sold over the counter and even prescribed and there seems to be no way to correct it...
Is there anyone out there with a similar condition.? If so, what do they do to correct/ease/prevent it from happening.?.?.?.?Health Question & Answer


Answers:
If your friend has any leg numbness or loss of bowel and bladder control, then you have to go to the Emergency room to make sure that the disc is not actually ruptured and putting pressure on the spinal cord-called Cauda Equina syndrome.

If not, a MRI of the spine, which is a diagnostic test that a doctor can order, will tell your friend exactly what the disc is doing.

Once that report comes in, you can do a number of treatment protocols.
1. Get medication to control spasm and inflammation
2. Get physical therapy
3. Get Epidural Steroid injections
4. Spinal traction or spinal decompression traction
5. Neurosurgery

It all depends on what the patients exam looks like, xrays look like and MRI reports look like.

Start with a good medical doctor or chiropractor and move from there.

Good Luck.

In the mean time, try using ice for 10 minutes followed by moist heat for 10 minutes once every hour and rest and avoid sitting.

Stand and walk or lay flat. Try to bring the patients knees to the chest to try to stretch open the spine when laying flat on the back.

Over the counter products like proteolytic enzymes have been known to really help, one product is called Wobenzym and can be bought on line or at a health food store until you get to see a doctor.Health Question & Answer

my uncle had this.
i think the only way to correct it is with surgery.
its pretty minor, and helps drastically.Health Question & Answer

Surgery is sooooo NOT the answer. Go see a good chiropractor. I come from a family of chiropractors and have seen many many many slip disc problems solved. It may take multiple treatments. But it's better than having someone cut you up. I go to one now that charges only $15 a treatment. But if it looks like you will need many treatments, they have a one-time price to treat it as many times it takes. also, they all take insurance.Health Question & Answer

your friend needs an MRI done,as "slipped discs" are capable of rupturing.The dr would look at the pictures(of the lower back)
sometimes the person thinks its only 1 disc:the disc below the bad one can herniate too!
some people have surgery to remove the damaged disc/discs.
sometimes surgery is not necessary,the dr can send your friend to a pain clinic(my hubby works with a man,who goes to a pain clinic for nerve-block injections)
the injection is given 1-2 times a week to freeze the nerve in the back,that's registering the pain.Its not a cure,its used for people who cant take any more pain pills, or the pills don't work anymore.Health Question & Answer

I have a herniated disk along with other things, I went to my dr and asked to refer me to a pain clinic, i don't now where you are but I go to
canterbury pain clinic , where you are sedated no pain there. then he will give you an injection of a mixture. that should work . I have mine every 6 months and a check up in between you should ask for an
M R I scan for proper diagnosis.
Hope this helps sheilla.
let me know how it goesHealth Question & Answer



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