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Andyman73
Me again, bet some of you are getting tired of me, right? I know I sure am!
Anyway, I have an appointment with pain management for consult and/or treatment for pain in my lower back. More specifically for the pain in the illiac crest region, Physiatrist referred me to them recommending injections in my lower back to treat the pain in my waist. My concern is this, will this impede any claim for pelvic region pain, if the injections work and eliminate the pain? I had a C&P exam back on October 30th, for this, but at the time it was filed as hip pain.
During the exam I kept pointing everywhere I felt the pain, as examiner was moving my legs. As it turns out, it wasn't my hips, since I was pointing to what I now know as my illiac crest areas. The illiac crest is the bony plates in your waist area between hips and lower back. And the pain is coming from there, most likely where muscles are attached. And he was recording the ROM and it put me in 30% or higher rating block. Afterwards I couldn't sit up with out his help.
I'm trying to get someone to tie it down to something, either lower extremity related, or back, for a secondary claim. The physiatrist was quite intrigued by the whole thing, since I already tried the physical therapy and lasted only 3 sessions. Therapist was disappointed at the lack of improvements and didn't want to make things worse. He's on my side! Lol. Physiatrist said this kind of pain is more common with patients who were in a head on crash where their knees were driven back into their waist. Or with major muscle injuries in the back like deep tissue lacerations or major blunt force trauma. But since I fell down some stairs, 23 years ago, and have had over 2 decades of knee, feet, ankle and back issues ever since.
And this illiac crest related pain only showed up after my PCP took me off ibuprofen due to effects on bp, and switched me to tylenol. We all know what that means, right? No more anti-inflammatory benefits, since Tylenol is not an anti-inflammatory. I firmly believe that is when I first began enjoying this new pain sensation, and it was masked by the ibuprofen previously.
Anyway, any thoughts, opinions, and suggestions are welcome.
Thanks,
Andy
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iceturkee
andy, i, too, fell down two flights of stairs (but broke it after the first flight) when i was in the army. i sustained a shaarp pain in the middle of my back but never went on sick call because of al
pwrslm
The spine is a funny critter. If you know how you stack dominoes, then knock them over, this is how the spine falls apart. One bad disc at first just upsets the level balance of the one above, and t
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i definitely have had problems with va radiologists reading my xrays.
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