March 1, 2025
My lumbar pain ride has roller-coasted a bit since my recent epidurals. From the peak of pain at the crest of the coaster, the pain vanished for 2 days as the coaster descended to earth level.
Today I rode back up to the top of the pain roller-coaster track and am back at the state where I typically am in my life.
To have had the 2 days free of the dominance of nerve compression at right L3 and L4 was unexpected and I am thankful for the doctor's skills.
Today is a bad day again, along with my TENS pads on high and the 4% lidocaine lotion rubbed into the areas. Ice packs are daily. I switch warm packs with fresh cold ones from the freezer throughout my days, all my days.
I'm convinced that small body parts move, shift around, pinch nerves and let off from a subtle movement of my muscles or body position, bending or twisting...
All my years of experience with this leads me to feel that increasing the space vertically between my lumbar disks via surgery is the sole way to give nerves space. The decompression of bad discs.
Such frustration is this 4-letter-word: pain.
Surgery it must be; and I loathe the idea of the surgery & hospital visit, with the week of anguish following the fusions, though I have 100% confidence in my surgeon.
This is repetitious. My regrets.
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