Surgery For Me?

OH NO!! Chart, I am the last person you should call an expert! I've made more wrong descisions in my life than probably all of you put together! Thats why I'm in the condition I'm in. I see so many of y'all listing everything wrong and all your problems at the bottom of your posts. It's been so long since I've had an MRI on my neck & back, I can't even remember which L's and what C's are bad anymore! My Doc keeps telling me to get another one but I hate those things! I have got stuck in the tubes because I'm too big around my middle and when I get to the part that hour-glasses in the middle, I'm stuck and have to scream, "Get Me the *&^))((#$@#! out of this thing!! Then there are the open ones skwish me like a big sandwich so bad that I can't breath, whats worse than not being able to breath?? Right! I get so claustrifobic?? in those things. The last time I got one, I had such a bad spazm in my back, I couldn't get off the table. The lady was yelling at me to leave because she had her next apt. waiting to come in and I couln't move. When I finally managed to sit up, I couldn't walk. It was really so bad, I'm sure a lot of you know exactly what I'm talking about! I finally asked if she had a sturdy 4 leg chair which I was able to use like a walker and hobble out to the lobby where I stayed untill closing trying to make my darn back losen up. Yep, I hate those MRI's!!! But really expert?? I don't know much about back pain other that my own and what it feels like. I do know that when someone tells me they have a bad back and have had it a long time, I believe them! Only we who have been there and been through the mill with it really know what it's like and how bad it really hurts. I can talk to someone who says they have back pain and look right into their eyes and can tell right away if they really know what it's like!!! I'll bet lots of you know exactly what I'm talking about! Well I have to go now but please my brothers & sisters, don't ever acuse me of being an expert on anything! And don't ever call me Sir either, man I hate that almost as much as MRI's
Your know-nuttin friend,
Pain in the butt pittyful Pete

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55 years old, Surgury, Radical Prostatectomy 8/20/03, PSA 6.6, Gleason 3 + 3 = 6, Adenocarcinoma extent (moderate) Stage & Margin:T2NOMX, No Metastases, Organ Confined, bone scan: Neg. 3 1/2 years of depression after surgery prior to Hypogonadizm DX, Testosterone Theropy (Testim Gel)since 12/06 but switched to a higher dose of (Androgel) 6/08. 55 and still alive and so glad to still be here to see my two sons grow up to be fine young men. They are both serving in the US Navy, one on an aircraft carrier heading for Hong Kong and the other on a Gator Freighter stationed in Norfolk, Va. I am one proud PaPa! 

Ok Pete,
I won't call you Sir if you promise not to call me Ma'am. Deal?

You know, I think your post came at a good time. It's true that something must
happen to calm this pain down. Maybe I need to lay around a bit more for awhile.
I don't know.

I was really active during the house move. Man! I had fun. Yes sir ree bob.(tee hee)
That could be it. I could have burst another pipe or wt f. (If you put those three
letters together the computer edit will get them. Try it.

I had the head of a very very fancy surgery center recommend a nasty-sounding
surgery. It involved cadaver bones, nails, chains ... terrible. I don't remember
very well. The doctor only spoke to my husband and me for SEVEN minutes. I
shouted, "I'll take it. I'll take it." And then I fled down the halls going really
fast fueled by Adrenalin.

If I ever have to have an MRI, I will tell the technicians that I get (serious tummy
problem) when I'm under stress. Maybe that would score you a decent anesthesia
with the approval of your doctor, of course. I'll be NO ONE has ever thought of
that before.It could work.

<--idea emoticon was supposed to go there.


So, anyway, A lot of this post has been written between the lines. If you have
questions, just e-mail me. k?

Pamela

Thanks Chartreux and No-Opana

Post Edited (Pamela Neckpain) : 2/5/2009 6:50:14 PM (GMT-7)