Category Archives: Ruptured Disc Adventures

March Progress Report

What’s Going On? You know things are going relatively well when I almost forget to update for the month. 🙂 Things have improved quite a bit over the past month (knock on wood!).  The disc pain is still basically gone; … Continue reading

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February progress report

What’s Going On? I had my two-week-after-the-epidural checkup with my doctor on Thursday and he seemed legitimately surprised that I was just getting back down to the pain level I’d had before getting the shots in the first place.  “That’s … Continue reading

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Epidural: one week report

Well, technically tomorrow it’ll be a week, but I probably won’t have time to update my blog, so this’ll have to be close enough. My pain level has gone from about a 8 or 9/10 in the 24 hours following … Continue reading

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Fun with big long needles

After a year, five months, and 11 days, my spine doc finally talked me into an epidural steroid injection. Well, two of them, actually. I’d had one before, in my neck, in October 2006.  That one didn’t go so well. … Continue reading

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January progress report

Hola peeps; I hope January is finding everyone happy and healthy. What’s Going On? I’m currently having a little bit of a setback but hopefully nothing too terrible.  As I mentioned in the blog earlier this month, I’ve been having … Continue reading

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