Ultimate Stess Test
12/30/2017 03:21 p.m.
Life and living has kept me from writing poems for awhile but I thought I would share this last month. A word of advice if you do not have a primary care doctor get one. On 11/19/12 I felt a dull pain in my back. On 11/23/17 extreme pain, could not stand up unaided could not walk. Was able to go to my chiropractor. With his help and a script I got from Doctors Care was able to walk but still had sever pain in back and down both legs. For two weeks my chiropractor tried to make adjustments to my back but I could not lay on my belly or my back because of the pain. He refereed me for an MRI and to a neurosurgeon. I attempted the MRI twice and was unable to lay on the table because of the pain. Because I did not have a primary care doctor, and the current crisis with people overdosing on prescription pain meds I could not get anything for the pain. I say the neurosurgeon before the MRI hoping they would prescribe something. I was going days without sleep finally could take no more and went to emergency. The young doctor did not understand that is had been three weeks of constant pain and did not feel I needed and emergency MRI he prescribed a steroid and a pain med. The nurse for the neurosurgeon thought that I was abusing the medication they prescribed a was taking one tablet every hour instead of every 8 hours. Here solution for the MRI was to prescribe two Valium to take when I went for the MRI. I scheduled my third attempt for a Friday. Early 4:00am the Thursday before I could take it no more. I had not slept since Sunday morning, I had constipation, a head ache and and a dull ache in my chest. My wife took me to emergency again. The doctor said whatever it takes I would have my MRI. I shed tears of relief. Finally after 33 days of non stop pain I would get some relief. I was sedated and the MRI done. I have a herniated disk and L1,2 and spinal stenosis at two discs below the herniated one. I now have medication to endure the pain. I am awaiting a call for an appointment to get a steroid shots in my back. I am praying this will work and that I will be able to return to work. If not then I will be looking a surgery. I now also have a primary care doctor. He said I would not need to take a stress test for a physical as I have endured the longest one he could think of.
I am currently Frustrated