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			<title><![CDATA[ I am new here... I have a question... ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Hello everyone!  I am new here, but not new to pain I leave in 24/7 after car accident in 2003 and my first milti level lumbar fusion in &#39;06.  I was Dx
with ARC and more in the last 2 years.
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I leave on PK for the last 3 years, but due to body tolerance increasing in dose doesn&#39;t help much, so I just refused last time I saw my PM to go up again.
 I want to give it a try.
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I wonder how often your doses have to be adjusted and if you get any relieve from opiates?
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I am very... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:23:20 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ How soon did A show up on your MRI? ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ I recieved an ESI in July. Been in constant pain &amp; spasms since. Dr. has diagnosed me with A Homebound, bedbound most days.. However on my lumbar MRI, it didn't show up. I am going back in for another for my t &amp; C spine as well as my brain next week. Just wondering how soon does it actually show up as adhesions? Can you just have it forever in the inflamation stage without adhesions? Also my scan was on a tesla 150 machine. Is that strong enough to be seen? I also believe it was read... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 04:00:07 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Thoratic-lumbar arachnoiditis and Hydrocephalus ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Hi, I'm New to this forum so any help and i would be grateful.<br>Here's my long story so i apologise, I'm a 28yr Female from the UK.  I went into hospital for a Knee problem had a spinal anethesetic, he managed to tear my spinal cord which caused a hemmorage, that caused Arachnoiditis on 2ft of my spine and then it managed to cause a bleed on my brain and cause communicating Hydrocephalus, for which i've had a VP shunt fitted.  I am unable to walk, they have said i will never walk again.... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:43:22 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ OUCH! OUCH! OUCH! ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Had surgery yesterday, to repair my neurotransmitter. First they opened up the area for the transmitter, and checked that. Woke me up to ask me if it was working. When I told them that it wasn't working, the doc said to put me back under. He didn't give the anesthesiologist time to do so, and started stitching me up. I hollered OW about 3 times before he realized that I wasn't under yet. They had to replace the paddle on the spinal cord, and that worked.<br><br>On my way home, I started... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2007 07:55:17 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Wonderful News....NOT!!! ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ I haven't been able to use my stimulator since the end of September, '06. I called Tech, and was told to get x-rays and send them to the doc. I did that in October, '06. They didn't bother to look at them, and said that they would put them in my files and keep them until I could get to the docs. I went yesterday, and they couldn't find my x-rays!!! <br><br>Now, I am waiting for the call to tell me what date they set for my surgery, where they will use the flouroscope to see where they have to... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2007 14:13:24 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Might have Ararchnoiditis ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Hi all,<br><br>I never knew there was a message board about this topic. Hell, I never knew there was such a thing until a few weeks ago. <br><br>I was in a car accident in 2000 and found out that though my lower back hurt a lot my neck had collapsed in two places and was crushing my spinal cord. This was due to a congenital disease called Stenosis. Something I had never heard of before. Well to make a long story short, I have had 6 operations on my neck and lower back since that time. My neck... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2007 10:46:56 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ when will it ever stop ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ hi guys, im so glad i have come across this site too. i have for years, felt so very alone in my pain. im a strong person, but lately i feel so weak. i dont want to give up, and i keep trying so hard to do for myself too. but even standing cooking a hamberger on my stove now..puts me back in bed, from the pain in my back, leg, hips and my feet, along with the other pain in my body too. i guess im just a mess, and this is life for me now. the only thing i hang onto is God. He is the only one... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2007 00:48:21 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Years of pain ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Hi Everyone! Iam so happy I have found this board, and I pray I can talk to others, who I have read, are going though the same things Iam. I had a car reck back in 1994, hit by two semi-trucks on the freeway. It all started from then. I had neck pain real bad, but was really nothing, then month by month, year by year, it got worse, unbearable. then they found ruputered disc, did surgery, taking out two of them, without a plate put in. after this first surgery, i was WORSE. i cried and just... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2007 10:16:59 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Another new Member to the Arachnoiditis Family! ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ I am so glad I have found this place.....have felt so alone since it is so rare. I have been a member of a neuro board for some time as I have been dealing with chronic back problems, pain for almost 6 years now and this summer in june I went in to have my spinal fusion that I just knew was going to help me and lo and behold the NS had a slip and nicked my dura which resulted in bleeding into my spinal fluid and added an extra 5 days to my 6 day hosp stay. I had to lay flat on my back the... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Sun, 05 Nov 2006 10:36:09 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Not able to fight anymore ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ I called today, to try to get a ride to get the psych evaluation. Come to find out, theeing  psychologist my pain specialist wants me to go through doesn't participate in my insurance program, so I can't even get a ride to see him/her. If I can manage to get a friend or family member to take me, I would have to pay for the consult out of my own pocket, which I can't afford. I'm waiting to find out if the pain specialist can find a psych who will work with my insurance. If not, then I can't... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jun 2006 14:13:26 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ EPIDURAL PUNCTUREDD DURA ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ hi <br>2 years ago in 2004 i had and epidural for childbirth (4th child)<br>my dura was puncture , the pain in my back was horrific ,<br>i had electric 'shocks' running down both my legs,<br>and my legs were moving violently and uncontrolably,<br>i was so frightened...<br>doctor kept telling me to ''hang on its nearly done''<br>eventually he finished , i had good pain relief and baby was born  :o)<br>10 mins after birth headaches started , within an hour they were so bad i couldnt take my... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Fri, 19 May 2006 05:10:07 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Here I am just a new one, here is my story. ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Hi,<br>My name is Kym Simons and im 24, in 2000 i got married to a great bloke,got pregnant late 2001 and we where so happy. Then when the day came i was rushed to our major hospital for better care, as i live in a smallish town, well getting there was fine but when they put in the epidural the first time a felt a very sharp pain down my left side, the doctor said &quot;thats not good&quot; and ripped out the needle and put it in right this time as i felt nothing. the labour after then was... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Fri, 21 Apr 2006 08:20:19 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Medical Tradegies ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Well, here I go....my story is similar to lots of others, I had en ESI in Oct. 2003, I was given depo medrol (without my knowledge) and the CRNA who did the procedure totally botched up and punctured my dura several times.  I had to have 2 blood patches done to get rid of the headaches.  Shortly after I started with the &quot;wierd&quot; sensations in my right leg and foot.  My Dr. said it was just nerve irritation from the ESI and that it would go away.  I wasn't satisfied with that so I got... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2004 07:14:04 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Implant pump ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Has anyone here have an implant pump that delivers medication/morphine through infusion/implant pump?<br>Iam trying to decide to have the pump implanted or go with the severing of nerves.  Iam diabetic and worry about infection with the pump.  Iam aware of all the details, just want to hear from someone that has one to explain to me if they like it...hate it...works better...or not.<br>Any replies are appreciated.  Thank you.<br>Hugs,<br>Angelady   <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :angel --><img... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2004 21:06:50 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Here's Mine.... ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ My health problems started in 77'  I had contacted Hepatitis C at the age of 17.. Now mind you if the Dr. told me not to drink I sure didn't hear them... So during some college and then marrying an alcoholic at 20 years old I drank like a fish.  I had my wonderful son Matthew at 21 and at 24 was diagnosed with ovarian cancer (Thank God that I had Matt!) so I had a complete hysterectomy and experimental chemo.  I weighed 95lbs and no hair and I asked my &quot;X&quot; for a hug and he told me... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2004 07:54:10 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ My Story ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ My name is Rob,<br>I have a wonderful life, with a beautiful and loving wife(i dont know what I would do without her). We have 3 great kids, Kevin 15, Brian 10, Kelly 8. I couldnt ask for better kids. They are smart, good looking and very caring.<br> We have a modest home in Chicago and a Golden Retriever named Jake(my hunting dog that wont hunt).<br> I am not a newcomer to illness and pain, I have dealt with Chrons Disease for over 20 Years. <br>Last year I was working on a Construction site... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2004 09:14:31 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Once upon a time... ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Courage is fear that has said it's prayers; and so I begin my story.  Mother/Father both alcoholics.  Mother abused Father.  Father died when I was 9 years old, Mother and I never &quot;bonded&quot;, she would beat me every chance she could..at age 17 I married the bus driver that I met while working and taking the bus Downtown.  He was a Communist..not active but wished he were.  On our wedding night I discovered that sexually he was a rabbit who could not bring me to climax; lying there... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2004 07:08:57 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ My Epiphany - How I learned About Pain and My Body ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ This is kind of long, so sit and relax as you read it.<br><br>Back in 1984, 10 years before I was diagnosed with arachnoiditis, I was under the care of a wonderful surgeon. I had been seeing him for a few months for a work related injury, and he finally diagnosed that the disks in my lower back (L4-5/L5-S1) had deteriorated so badly that  I needed a fusion. But before he would do the surgery on me, I had to attend a series of classes he gave weekly, so that I could understand what was really... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2004 18:05:21 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Dean here, alias dkron, back history ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Wow, this is a long story, will try to condense as much as possible.  My name is Dean, I live in Canyon Lake Ca. (very close to Michael, in Palm Springs)<br>Started having back pain on a regular basis in about 90'  Missed about three months of work every year till my back surgery in 96'.  Had a fusion on L4-L5, L5-S1 with permanant rods with 6 screws to hold the rods in.  I drove a truck for 26 years, not a good idea with a bad back!!  All time off has been work related so at least that is to... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2004 22:20:56 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Where to start this is going to be REALLY long! ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Since in one of my other posts I mentioned that I have a weight problem well lets just say I was an fat baby and it went down hill from there.  I've been on every diet known to man, tried every thing even was put on diet pills (yes speed) when I was 9 years old in an attempt to lose weight.  All the dexies did was make me sleepy and hungry btw.  So yes probably being overweight has contributed to my back problems but it's not the sole cause.  just wanted to get that out of the way.<br><br>At... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2004 08:44:57 GMT</pubDate>
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