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So I went to my urgent care and with no

X Ray or ct scan the doctor diagnosed it as Radiculopathy,.,some sort of nerve damage..in my back, he request that I take muscle relaxers and physical therapy I'm going to my PCP next week to get a second opinion. I don't know what happened during my surgery but this pain is unbearable

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I feel your pain. I have been treating radiculopathies for over six years, but it is because of 14 ruptured discs in my back (my spine coud not carry my weight anymore). The discs pinch the nerves. Monday I finally had nerve ablations done on three of them, with notable relief. Could your pain be coincidence and not surgically related at all? Another relief measure is lidocaine Patches. So here are my relief processes:

1. Hydrocodone

2. Lyrica

3. Lidocaine Patches

4. Nerve ablation (radiofrequency) surgery (A disconnect is created between the problem nerve and the pain receptors in the brain. There is a lot of info about that onine.

I wish you well......nerve pain sucks.

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I was wondering that...before surgery I did have a few episodes with sore back pain on my upper right side but after a couple of days it would go away..now that I'm post op it's on the upper left side..I'm thinking ok a couple of days it will go away..or maybe it's just gas...I will definitely look into the lidocaine patches..thanks for your input I want to say it all the surgeon's fault...but I know that's not the case lol....it might be some underlying symptom that was never looked at.

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