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• My back hurts very badly.
  

  ..thanks - also saw your post on laserspinecenter.com — in general, these
  procedures do better on the lower back — but they are not guaranteed and
  can actually make things worse on occasion..
  
  ..prayer would be great — except the pain doesn’t stop — can’t put it
  more simply than that.. you are right about the ice-pack — but that
  does lose effectiveness after a while — doesn’t cure the problem sigh :) –
  i.e. when the ice pack is on - you feel fine — but 20 minutes later the
  pain comes back and you can’t keep doing this 24/7.. sigh..
  
  thanks again for all thoughts / suggestions..
  - written 2 years, 4 months ago

• My back hurts very badly.
  

  Thanks for the link — I copied some of it here for reference..
  
  >>
  New Radio Wave Treatment to Correct Back Disorders Offers Alternative to Drugs, Open-Spine Surgery
  Boston–May 2002, Harvard Medical School affiliate Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center–If you are one of the estimated 1.5 million Americans who will be diagnosed this year with a contained herniated disc–also known as a ‘thrown-out back’ or ‘pinched nerve’ of the upper leg–the answer may be as familiar as your radio. Doctors at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center are using radio waves Æ the same energy that sends signals to your car radio–to gently dissolve small amounts of unwanted disc tissue and relieve the pressure often associated with lower back and upper leg pain.
  For patients whose body motion is restricted by a spine disc attack and who can’t stand the prospect of a sometimes lengthy and painful convalescence, radio wave injection may be just the answer, says Joshua A. Hirsch, M.D., an interventional neuroradiologist and associate professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School. Virtually bloodless and exceptionally precise, Nucleoplasty radio wave injection is more like getting a vaccination or epidural steroid injection than traditional open-spine surgery.
  
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  ..i’ve discussed this with my doc — he doesn’t seem to think me a candidate (it
  is harder to do this stuff in the neck compared to the lower back ) — i’ll
  ask again..
  - written 2 years, 4 months ago

• My back hurts very badly.
  

  thanks for all the thoughts and good wishes..
  
  sigh..
  
  the MRI shows the disk pushing quite clearly against the nerve
  root. I’ve done a lot of physical therapy — I was very strong
  when the injury happened — but phy. therapy only makes it worse..
  
  ..rest seems to help a bit - but the rest of me atrophies — that
  was hard to take in the beginning but I guess I’ve gotten used to it , sigh..
  
  the main issue is the pain — i don’t really care what happens to the rest
  of me , i just wish the pain would stop.. I’ve done just about everything out there..
  - written 2 years, 4 months ago

• My back hurts very badly.
  

  thanks.. this is a C6-7 herniation ( sixth-seventh cervical verterbra - the
  disk actually) — no idea really how it happened. It started aching like crazy
  one day 4 years ago and hasn’t stopped since..
  
  thanks for the tips - swimming etc. Basically, if I raise my arm above
  my neck, it starts hurting. The trouble really is a deep fierce ache
  in the right shoulder-blade and neck area that never goes away..
  - written 2 years, 4 months ago

• My back hurts very badly.
  

  bay area, CA
  - written 2 years, 4 months ago

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