Originally Posted by
itsmatty30
I want to start this by saying that idk that this will help me or anyone else but I just want to vent and let stuff off of my chest! Last year I herniated a disc and my back and up until about a week ago I was getting by. Granted, as soon as it happened I went to the ER the next day and did the whole dr appointment thing. EVERYONE! LITERALLY FREAKING EVERYONE! told me "oh it's just muscle spasms and to get some rest and take your pain pills and muscle relaxers that we CONSTANTLY FREAKING PRESCRIBE YOU NO MATTER WHAT YOU'RE SITUATION! Long story short this past year has been a bunch of "oh I feel fine now" which is then immediately followed by me re-aggravating the disc. And if you're asking, how do you know this is a herniated disc problem? Because I've had this before when I was like 17 with the exact same symptoms and within a few weeks I was fine. Anyways, back to the present day - this past week I really re-aggravated the disc BADLY. I went to the ER this past saturday and they told me the same thing about muscles and blah blah blah BLAH. The pain subsides but I'm getting numbness in the back of my thigh and in my foot. Well instead of sitting around like an idiot waiting for things to either stay the same or get worse I go right back to the hospital where they FINALLY after a year of this back and forth decide to run an X-ray on my low back revealing what could "possibly be a moderate to severe Herniated disc in the L5-S1 area". FREAKING BINGO! FINALLY I HAD SOME KIND OF EVIDENCE (even if it is JUST an x-ray) THAT IT ISN'T JUST MUSCLE RELATED! Anyway, I schedule an appointment with what I believe to be a spine specialist! And I'm right, it's a spine specialist... BUT! It's a spine specialist who specializes in pain management. He tells me that he looked over the x-ray and it's pretty clear that there is some sort of disc herniation but he needs an MRI to be certain. He ordered an MRI and a steroid injection (of cortisone, I think?? idk) but then he told me "There's a possibility your insurance declines to pay for this. In which case you'd be ordered at least 6 weeks of physical therapy". Today I called my insurance company to ask if there's any chance of the MRI and steroids being paid for via insurance and they in a round about way said yes, maybe, possibly. As soon as I hung up I got on their website and looked for chiropractors near me who accepted my insurance. I called one close by and made an appointment for as soon as they can fit me in which is next wednesday. I'm really hoping that this goes somewhere and at least provides some glimmer of hope. My anxiety has been through the freaking roof this past year to the point that idk how I've held it together. I recently got into CBD gummies which thankfully have started to help my anxiety a bit. Honestly, I don't know what the point of this post is or was but I really just had to vent. Sorry! And thanks for listening, if you made it this far!