I am looking for anyone who may have read/experienced/found a spinal
neuroma. I previously had a fusion of the L5/S1 level in 1985 at age 22.
In 1992, I was water-skiing on Labor Day and crashed.
It took my orthopods, neurologists, and neurosurgeons (from SF Bay Area
hospitals, as well as Sacramento, CA) two months before they found that I
had damaged my R. sacroilliac. (However, that injury did NOT explain the
pain levels -- so, in May 1993 "they" finally went in again and
IMMEDIATELY found the neuroma).
In March 1994, an externally-based spinal cord stimulator (mfr.
"Medtronics") was implanted. Unfortunately, this implant has
"moved/shifted" and will be re-implanted w/in the next couple of weeks.
The SCS, if successful, will only "block" a portion of the pain; though I
still experience shooting pains down both legs (particularly the right
side), with numbness down both legs.
If any of you have heard/read of this so-called phenomenom; and/or would
like a ginny-pig towards the advancement of neural-cell regeneration, you
need look no further. I am tired of 'waiting', and would much rather be a
'help' than a hindrance to my doctors :-)
Thanks,
CADavis
