lol laz, you have been in the wars!
and holy cow rc51 you must be the same as me when it came to motorbikes.I had roughly 12 crashes on my various motorbikes , probably only 3 of those were serious though , others were silly things like broken fingers etc.
Ive only broken my left fibula and left collarbone (cracked couple of ribs) in these crashes until i did a thourough job by breaking my back at L1/T12
My problem all stems from the fact i crushed L1/T12 rather than breaking it. I landed on my bellybutton at around 60mph after doing a rather special aerial cartwheel off my 600 motorbike
.I had a metal implant for around a year, put in in a 6 hour opp on the night of my accident, until it seemed to stabelise, then had it removed.For 10 years the only problem i had was really rare in that i only seemed to get an attack of extreme pain maybe once every 4 or 5 months.totally acceptable
Now i consider myself very tollerant to pain, When you crush your fingers or get burned etc I find these sorts of thing no problem and i always refused pain killers through my hate of taking any chemicals. For instance when i had morphene after my original back-break I refused it after the second day. Severe ache is tollorable.But when i get these attacks they arent something you can try to use mind over matter. The pain rises Very quickly and is gone just as fast. I would liken it to being stuck with a huge needle deep in the hip and then connecting it to the national grid electricity pylons!! lol real bastards! You have no time to prepare yourself and its always just beyond your capability to ignore with a growl lol. When im out boozing i have to try to 'look' as though im not being stabbed with a knife!! lol very tricky when your trying to act cool in front of a nice girl!. hehe i have a perfected 'dead pan' face i have to use
funniest thing is getting an attack just as your best mate is on the punch line of a good joke!
This nerve pain im currently recieving is as bad as any of my previously rare attacks (which incidently meant no sleep whatsoever unless i was literally knocked out with drowsiness inducing drugs and sheer exhaustion from straining against the pain all night).What the doctors suspect is that now the vertebrea are 'slipping' and trapping whatever nerves were causing those infrequent attacks, meaning i now got them pretty much every day. I have to take that tramodol and gabapentin to just function (takes 2 or 3 hours from when i wake up like a bear with a sore head for the nerves to sort of settle or dull down)
So then i had my surgery again to fix a new metal implant and like laz fuze all the vertabrea (T11 to L2) I had another 6 hour op and they actually attached this one NOT to the back of my spine but to the front! they collapsed a lung cut my diaphram in half fixed the spinal brace and sowed me up. It was a hell of a operation to recover from and id say it was a good 5 months before i got my strength/helth back to a normal level. The problem was that it was all for nothing, the damn pains continued and so the doctors are pretty baffled. Now im due to go in to have a week of tests, they are going to try various methods to see if they can pinpoint the area causing the problems.
If they fail the possible resolution will be a cutting of the tactile nerve connections to my hips in order to numb the entire area(obviously some risk here).Im all for this after all this time. Id rather have no feeling than constant pain.Basically all this and many more 'tests' ive done to try and beat it have happened over the 2 to 3 years ive been on AH.
Acupuncture is something i have never really believed in. Ive had plenty of people giving advice which i politely accept but often have to laugh at like 'how about rubbing crystals over the pain' and other alternative crap
Has it really worked for you? if you really think it could stop such strong and sharp pain i may well give it a try, but to be honest i suspect theres little short of heavy pain killers that can tackle this damage i have. Its almost like the nerves are going crazy and are not behaving in any way normally. With my current drugs they seem to dull my brains capacity to 'interpret' this mess and so relieves it. I really cant imagine a few pins stopping them. I gouge my thumbs into the points of pain like im trying to tear the bones out and whilst this would usually hurt, during an attack of this pain i cant even feel it. This is what puts me off all this alternative stuff.
anyhow thanks for chatting guys and i hope things go well for you guys as well as myself when im next in the hospital. Im getting on with things, 'as you do'
. I wont mope around and rarely put any of this crap on any of my friends, but i must say its great to let it all out on these BB's to you bunch of loons lol
And Laz as a real life pirate made me spit my tea.and raised a smiile. Now if i could just do that every morning as i wake up in a foul mood things would improve wouldnt they
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