Asking for a friend.
Let’s-a-go!
It’s-a Luigi time!
Second opinions matter if you can swing them
Had a doc tell me I have a “mystery disease” four months before another at a larger specialty clinic gave me a tentative dx.
It sucks needing to travel for many reasons, but at least she has seen this issue before
Wow, that sucks. No, mine is a simple slipped disc or whatever, but insurance doesn’t want to follow my doc’s orders. Fucking United Healthcare.
Fuck you both. I hope both of you downvoters experience this exact back pain. You assholes. Fuck you and your grandmothers. This hurts like a motherfucker. Dick.
Don’t stress about down votes. Each instance treats them differently and given the small amount of content compared to somewhere like reddit, even posts with fewer upvotes still get seen pretty well.
Posting complaining about down votes is a sure fire way to get down votes and for people to disengage.
I hope you get better soon. I had an MRI recently and they are pricey. I forgot to take off my wedding ring and there was a strange buzzy feeling on my finger. I thought they were stricter and more careful so the machine doesn’t get destroyed. Or the people!
Sorry but this type of post is very specifically not allowed in this subreddit
Uh sir, this is a lemmys.
I’m sorry for you mate, i can feel your pain (I’m twice operated on my L5S1 disc, and struggled years with the pain). Get a second opinion. in the meantime it’s important to make sure your muscles in that area keep up - Just stay active, don’t do nothing, because that will make it worse long time.
don’t pick up heavy weights (avoid anything above 5kg without that MRI). Make sure you lie good in bed; if the slipped disc is in the lumbar area, sleep either with legs up (just as you would in a chair, 90° angles in hip and knee), or sleep on the side with something between your knees so that your legs stay parallel. if it’s in the neck area, i heard that neck pillows work pretty well. If your bed is very soft, or the mattress is already heavily worn (or the “ladder-thingy” the mattress lies on) that’s not so good for the spine - so if a replacement bed is already on the horizon, maybe prioritize that.
Most slipped discs get better over time - the material that presses on the nerves gets reabsorbed, so you’ve got that going for you.
It maybe helpful to try and find out who the doctor is, where they are license, their speciality, and such. Might help you know how to build a legal case.
Otherwise something that leaves burns. Even light ones are tough.
Tore an achilles tendon.
Needed an MRI to determine the location and extent of the tear.Aetna: Denied. You didn’t do an xray first.
Doctor: Tendons don’t show up on xrays.
Physical Therapist: Tendons don’t show up on xrays.Aetna: You didn’t do an xray first.
Hard enough to knock them out, so you can write OATHBREAKER on their forehead.
