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Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Galivants Ferry, SC
Posts: 10,550
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Hi:
I had L5S1 problems and it put me in so much pain it was the only time I contemplated suicide ( not really, but VERY close)...was off of work for 4 months, Iwent through an excruciating series of cortisone inections near the spine ( with a small TV camera attached...yikes, I saw stars!), followed up by sports therapy and infra red heat massage. Had to do pelvic type push ups ( usu called "women's" push ups where you pivot from the hip) to get the gel back into place.
ONE DAY...after no progress for 4 months, I suddenly was 95% improved. Divine Intervention? Not too far-fetched if you have faith in such matters. I was one week in front of surgery and this happened to cancel that. The original problem was that L5S1 "gell" had blown out and was holding tight on the cyatic ( sp?) nerve, a major nerve that runs through your butt and along the entire left side of your leg.
My point...do therapy and wait it out if you can....talk this over with your doctor. For all that Buffalo, NY does *not* offer, it has some of the best medical facilities and research hospitial in the world.
Just another data point...
---Wil Ferch
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Wil Ferch
85 Carrera ( gone, but not forgotten )
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