I did competitive gymnastics as a child to level 9 (lots of flipping, twisting, arching, high impact). I stopped because of a back injury 20 years ago and have had back pain ever since. My doctor says I likely fractured my back as a child and it didn’t heal properly. I only got an xray and MRI in the last year.
I have been in PT the last 6+ months and am consequentially in the best shape of my adult life. My core is extremely strong from PT, reformer Pilates, and yoga. However, I have plateaued in therapy and am not seeing much improvement in my back pain. My pain ranges from stiffness that prevents me from twisting or arching my back — to nerve issues that cause numbness in my legs and feet, radiating pain that feels like spasms on steroids (ha).
I did two rounds of facet joint steroid injections that increased my pain immensely for 1-2 weeks each time, with little to no relief following. I also did a diagnostic procedure for nerve ablation that provided minimal relief.
I have seen others post with grade 1 spondylosis that saw great relief from surgery. At this point my PT says surgery is my best option and I’m starting to feel the same.
Also my psychotherapist recommended finding a support group or looking into Reddit and this community has been really validating and helpful so far. I’m open to any and all advice as it feels nice to be seen and understood by folks experiencing varying levels of the same thing. Back pain sucks! I want to be able to live a healthy, normal life and not constantly be in pain.
Sending lots of love to y’all 🫶

(Long post incoming) I (28 F) was diagnosed with glaucoma in my right eye about a year ago. Some background of how things were beforehand:
I was born 3 months premature and had retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) that made me lose sight in my left eye in infancy. I developed glaucoma in that blind eye in childhood, and eventually had to have it removed when I was 16 due to how high the IOP was. I remember sitting in a classroom taking the PSAT's sophomore year and feeling the first signs of intense pain, and had the enucleation surgery just a few months later. I now wear a prosthetic and things have been pretty normal for the past 12 years since then, especially because I never had sight in that eye to begin with so it wasn't a huge adjustment to make.
Fast forward to last year, my biggest fear comes true. Glaucoma in the right eye.
It seems like I am eyedrop resistant. I've tried 5 different drops, steroids, all of it, and the pressure is still not under 20 after trying all of that. It even creeps up to 30 sometimes, which I went to the ER for where they gave me acetazolamide in IV form which really helped for a few days.
My specialist wants to schedule me for the laser surgery, and also said we can do the injection next if laser doesn't work, and then finally the putting-me-under surgery if those first 2 options fail. Surgery doesn't scare me, I've had plenty of eye surgeries as a kid (including a cataract removal in my seeing eye when I was only 12 years old), I'm just absolutely terrified that after all this work, it will still be to no avail.
The biggest issue is I don't have insurance right now, so surgery is out of the question, but every day it's being put off is another day I'm losing visual capacity. (Insert rant about fighting to receive benefits from Medicaid here) I have the floaters daily, pain that is leaving me unable to work now, I can't go outside without sunglasses cuz of light sensitivity, and I'm just simply feeling like a burden to my loved ones.
Anyway, long post over, I just was super happy to find this sub to connect with others who know what it's like. Thanks for reading :)

I had my lower bleph about 2.5 months ago and healed well however about 2 weeks ago a lump formed under one of my eyes. It has not gone away and is firm to the touch. I went to my Dr and he was not quite sure what it could be but injected a steroid. Has anyone experienced this? There is no pain associated with it

I slept one hour last night despite taking meds to sleep and wonder if that’s normal after a steroid injection for you?

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Hi all! I’m new to this subreddit. Backstory: I started having pain along my lower back and right leg probably a bit over a year ago now. After months of trying PT and X-rays and finally an MRI I got a diagnosis of Bilateral spondylolysis at L5-S1 with secondary grade 1 anterolisthesis. I had epidural steroid injections in mid march, and for the first 3 weeks I had very minimal pain. Very manageable. However, the pain is back, and much more severe in my right leg than it ever was. It goes numb, tingly and then comes almost unbearable pain. It’s to the point that it’s affecting my moods and quality of life. I stand all day at work and it’s the worst 8 hours of my life, every day. I do have an appointment on Monday, is there anything that I could ask for? Should I try the injections again? Thanks for any advice!

Hello! Firstly: we have seen several veterinarians for this issue and are currently under the care of one and I understand this is not a substitute for care, just seeing if the larger vet community might have some additional insight for this vague/persistent issue.
Info:
• Species: Cat\ • Age: 13ish\ • Sex Neuter status: Female, spayed\ • Breed: Domestic shorthair (calico)\ • Body weight: 12ish lbs\ • History: Intermittent diarrhea outside of litterbox, sometimes with mucus and/or blood (has solid poops in litterbox in between episodes for weeks at a time)\ • Clinical signs: Acts fine otherwise: eats/drinks great, is playful and social. Is physically examined by vet each time there is blood in stool, vet always says she looks great.\ • Duration: About 3 years\ • Your general location: Southeast Texas\ • Links to test results, vet reports, X-rays etc: I have no links but the vet has done a couple of stool sample tests, which have come back normal. Has done bloodwork which was fine. Have not done any X-rays or imaging.
Additional info:
• Vets agree that it is allergies, definite chicken/poultry allergy and maybe something else\ • We have changed diet to chicken/poultry free with minimal ingredients and give probiotic powder daily, both of which seem to help (have tried prescription hydrolized protein diets which seemed to make it worse)\ • She currently gets regular steroid injections about every 8 weeks and has done a couple rounds of antibiotics, which seem to help but are maybe decreasing in efficacy (steroids especially)\ • Was born with about half a tail, kind of like a long bobtail. Read once a while ago (on the internet) that cats with tail mutations can have lower GI issues, not sure how true that is (because internet)\ • Cat tax available upon request (she is very cute)
Mostly posting just to see if there might be something else at play here, or if anyone has suggestions to decrease the number of episodes she has. I hate to think that her stomach is hurting and want to be sure we’re doing everything we can and are chasing the right issue.
Thank you in advance, and thank you all for being veterinarians/techs and doing what you do every day!!
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My cat had a steroid shot over one month ago and he still has a lump at the injection site. It feels a little larger than a pea. He is a sphynx so much more noticeable than a cat with fur. I wanted to see if I should wait a week or two longer to see if goes down before calling. I had something like this happen to my other cats years ago with vaccines and they did go away. Seems like they went away sooner though. Injection site is left hind leg area. No pic cause can’t get him to hold still, sorry.

Please advice next stepsMy dad is 74 years old and was diagnosed with secondary CNS lymphoma with LMD involvement over the past month (weeks for LMD). His original diagnosis dating back to last Sept was for DLBCL which he was treated for with Pola-R-CHP and responded great. He was told he was NED at the beginning of March then two weeks later presented with stroke like symptoms that led to MRIs and the secondary CNS diagnosis. He has since completed 3 rounds of MRT (high dose MTX, riTUXimab, and temozolomide) via port in his chest and unfortunately things are progressing. Over the weekend they started him on steroids which have given him relief and stamina. Today he will complete his 4th round of WBRT...My questions is whats best next steps? Drs have mentioned cytarabine via lumbar injection (how often and many should we do? or are there othebetter options?) and oral ibrutinib. Please advice. I have access to all his records via MyChart and can provide more info if needed. I've attached the results from his most recent MRI. If pain management if advised, please do not hesitate to say but he is willing to fight and so are we. Also, since the lesion is affecting his eye, should we have an ocular oncologist come??

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So I was diagnosed with anterior uveitis in one eye at first after having irritation from contacts. My doctor believes it could also be my immune system in overdrive since I also have Multiple Sclerosis.
I had bad light sensitivity, pain, and a red eye. I had a few cells at the front of my eye that went away after a few days of prednisolone eye drops every hour, atropine 3x a day, and ointment at night. I did this for 3 weeks after seeing a specialist.
Yesterday I went to my follow up and I haven't had any pain or a red eye for two weeks. My doctor said while my eye looked good and I feel good I still have some inflammation at the front of my eye but I'm good to start tapering off the steroid eye drops for 5 weeks with no follow up. What scares me is that he did say it reached the rest of my eye and I have a few white cells in the back which is now panuveitis.
He offered an injection in my eye which he said may or may not help so it was optional. He also said when I go to my regular eye doctor for a check up next week she can correct my prescription for that eye since the white cells are probably what is making it a little blurry. The blurriness is not that bad and I'm still taking the drops just not the atropine or ointment anymore. My eye is still very much dialed.
I'm wondering if I still have those cells in the back of my eye, will it get worse??? He didn't give me straight answers. Will I literally go blind if I don't get that injection? Is it the drops/dilation contributing to the blurriness?? I am going crazy. This on top of having MS is truly a disaster and I'm only 24 (f). Will it ever subside or is this going to be my life forever...

Hi all,
(TL;Dr at end, sorry this is a long post!)
Last autumn I started getting intermittent pains in my arms from typing but these typically went away when I adapted my technique took more breaks etc. I then did a whole load of DIY in January and in the space of a couple of hours caused a massive flare up with swelling of my hands etc.
It's now about 4 months that I've been off work fully and completely resting my arms (to the extent that, living at home, my mum literally has to cut up my food for me).
The swelling and muscle pain has subsided but I have a lot of pain still in the tendons in my wrist and their insertions at my elbow. It also flares up really easily - if I try to move some clothes around in my room to clear up a bit for example this can then lead to pain increasing over the next couple of days and it can take a couple of weeks to return to its previous level.
I've been doing stretches and massaging the muscles in my forearms religiously. I also take anti-inflammatories. I had a steroid injection in one wrist which seemed to help temporarily but the pain is returning.
I'm trying to start eccentric exercises as I'm aware at this point it's probably not an acute inflammatory problem. However, currently I am literally only doing about six body weight reps of an eccentric wrist curl twice daily with my right wrist and this is enough I think to cause a slight increase in pain over the next couple of days.
I plan to start reading some of the books recommended in this forum as there may be a slight psychosomatic component to this stage. However there is definite swelling at my wrists when I overdo things so I'm not convinced it is only this. I have also had blood tests and an MRI that have shown nothing.
TL;Dr - my question is this: how much pain is acceptable after doing eccentric exercises? Clearly with the level I'm at rest isn't resolving things on its own but it's difficult for me to do any kind of eccentric exercises without a slight increase in pain. Does this mean I do just have to be strict and carry on resting it for longer? Or is a bit of pain acceptable? How soon would you expect to see any improvement?
TIA!!

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Summary: I read alot of posts where people have been sedated for this procedure. And I am here to say, for me, It was very tolerable without it.
I am a 52 year old female who never had a single back problem until Jan 2024. I had issues on my right side with burning hip and inner thigh pain with no lower back pan (but it was determined to be a lumbar issue). That got alot better with oral steroid pack(still numb spot inner thigh, I only notice it when I shower), then a couple months later, my left side stated to hurt with all sciatica pain described in this channel (I won't bore you with details - you all have read about it and lived it)
Because of my profound closterphobia, I had had a CT Myleogram in place of an MRI about 6 weeks ago. That sucker hurt because it creates pressure on your spine with the amount of contrast they put in. It took 24 hours for that pain to wear off. There was no offer of sedation for that procedure. Summary of findings:
FINDINGS: Morphology: There is lucency along the adjacent L5 and S1 endplates. There is mild multilevel endplate spondylosis. There is multilevel facet arthrosis.
Alignment: Mild scoliotic curvature of the lumbar spine apex to the left. Mild rightward lateral listhesis of L2 on L3.
L3-L4: There is disc height loss with diffuse disc bulge and endplate spondylosis. There is bilateral facet arthrosis. There is mild right foraminal narrowing. There is no significant spinal canal or left foraminal narrowing.
L4-L5: There is diffuse disc bulge with endplate spondylosis. There is bilateral facet arthrosis. There is mild spinal canal narrowing. There is mild right greater than left foraminal stenosis.
I was told as a kid I had mild scoliosis and i remember the Dr telling my mom it was so mild no need for treatment (while sitting in his office, he was smoking and making light of the finding the school nurse told my mom). Gotta love the 70s. It's amazing how Gen X survived the early years.
Since April 15th my siatica pain has been an 8 to a 10 daily. I finally gave in and bought a cane so I could safely navigate walking without falling. I had a NCS/EMG that was normal. Then finally I was referred to pain management. Since January no doctor gave me anything more than Advil for the pain. I found lidocaine patches and they helped me sleep. I saw pain MGMT Dr. On Friday (may 10), he prescribed Diclofenac and cyclobenzaprine. That resolved the lower back pain and got my sciatica pain down to a 6-7 as of today (may 15) when I had the esi injection.
Anyhow, I provide all this information above so you can compare yourself to me and my situation to better determine if no sedation might work for you.
I decided no sedation b/c I was told it was much less pain than CT Myleogram and I could drive home after if I didn't get sedation. I thought what the heck, I survived the Myleogram, this should be cake.
It was cake. The lidocaine (local anesthesia) they injected hurt just like the CT Myleogram except this Dr. did it faster so it hurt a bit more. The needle once in place did cause a sudden pain down leg that was just a split second. Then the steroid going in was another sharp pain for 10 seconds.... And that was it. So glad I didn't do sedation.
With sedation, you are still awake when they do it, you still feel the same pain, but you are all loopy. They give you a med so you don't remember what happened during the process. To me that sounds miserable.
I was in there for a total of 1 hr and 11 minutes. I was in my bed settling in for a nap 10 minutes later (I live less than a mile from the surgery center). It was a nice nap. No pain for the first time in a month.
I am a big baby when it comes to medical procedures. I have had a lot of medical trama in the past, I usually jump on being knocked out if they will really do it. But twilight sedation, where I still am awake but won't remember, and the hangover from the meds that do that... Almost seems worse than just sucking it up and powering through it.
Tonight my pain is way less than when the day started. They told me to expect it to get worse before it gets better and in 3 days the steroids should kick in. I am praying this gives me enough relief to walk without a cane and to be able to start PT. I will post updates if anyone is interested.
Best wishes to all of you suffering from siatica, it's been the most painful and disabling health issue I have ever experienced. I don't wish this pain on my worst enemy. I pray you find pain relief sooner than later and back to your normal soon.
UPDATE day 1: woke up with injection site a little sore. Thighs and buttocks ache, but not sciatica pain, more the ache you get when you are running a fever. Pain scale 4 out of 10. Also have a mild headache and face flushing (which I was told were possible side effects). Gonna take it easy today. God willing, the lack of sciatica pain i normally feel this time of day, is a good sign this injection will give some relief!

Hi all, this is speculative at best and based purely on my experience, wanted to know if anyone else has had this experience. Not trying to be medical expert.
I had acute sciatica caused by herniated disc in L5 S1. After couple months of excruciating pain and failed PT, steroid injection helped me. Right PT, correct posture and walking led to better health. There are couple days of bad pain followed by stiff back every now and then, but managable.
However, I started having upper back stiffness shortly after I started moving around after the injection. My shoulder stiffened quickly and right hand mobility went for a toss. The ortho diagnosed it as frozen shoulder and ruled out any connection with disc/ changed posture. However, because I changed my posture ( I had terrible posture before in pretty much all activities ) significantly, I still feel that that had an impact. My right hand mobility is back to almost 90% now. But the stiffness of upper back still sometimes bugs me. My left shoulder also aches sometime, I do the shoulder excercises fairly regularly to avoid any further complication.
Anyway, point is, anyone else has experience of back related complications arising after sciatica / disc episode?

Hi I’ve been having a L5/S1 herniation of the disk and from what I understand the general current (scientific) treatment plan for something like this is
NSAIDs —-> PT —-> Steroid Injection —-> Microdisectomy
From the first thing to last thing to do, based on if the prior didn’t work. Am I missing something? Is this remotely correct? I have currently arrived at the steroid stage and this is what you’d get recommended for at a MD from my experience so far here in Canada. I had my first injection and feel no different, and am just worried that if the injections keep not working, I have no option left than surgery? I’m not sure if I want to start experimenting alternative conservative treaments like osteo or stuff like that. I feel stuck.

I had never had a cat in my life (54M) and one year ago my son rescued this beautiful 2yo female calico cat, and named her Ellie. She's the light of my life, and everyone in my home adores her. However, in this first year with her sometimes I felt like she was bored, and many articles and videos recommended having a second cat to accompany each other.
That's why, in the first anniversary with my lovely girl Ellie, I decided to stop by the shelter "just to look".
And there she was, this sweet and adorable 4yo calico female. I asked to meet her and she came to me without fear or hesitations, and allowed me to lift her and pet her. I immediately fell in love with and adopted her. I named her Abby.
While checking Abby's history in the paperwork from the shelter, I found out she was brought in by her previous owner to be euthanized because she was too "bitey and scratchy". The vet at the shelter determined she didn't show any bad behaviors, and on the contrary she was so sweet and demanding of attention, that denied putting her to sleep. And 3 days later I found her.
I brought her home and Ellie didn’t approve Abby at all, hissing and growling to her, but never physically attacking her. Abby hid under the sofa and I laid down next to her to confort her, and that first night she came out from hiding and slept in my bed.
Things started to look promising with Ellie, who despite still growling and hissing, allowed Abby to get closer.
But on the third day, a Saturday, Abby started sneezing sporadically. On Sunday the sneezing became more frequent and violent, specially every time she moved.
Comes Monday and I took her to the vet clinic. They ran blood analysis, x-rays and a PCR test. Abby had fever so they put her on IV hydration and gave her pain medicine. The blood analysis and the x-rays didn’t show anything bad, but they told me the PCR test's results would take 2 days. They injected her antibiotics and steroids, and released her for me to take home. This visit to the vet ended up costing me over $800. They told to keep an eye on her and check her temp.
She's been having outbursts of sneezing at all times, and the poor thing rubs her legs on her nose, like if it's itching. I've done all my best to keep her as comfortable as possible, without forgetting Ellie.
Then today I got a call from the vet's office telling me that the PCR test threw out that Abby had a Feline Herpevirus infection. They told me I had to keep both cats separated for 2 weeks, and stop by tomorrow to get a medicine to give her. Now I fear for Ellie, because I googled it and FHV is highly contagious and, not knowing it, I've been a bit careless in keeping Ellie and Abby separated. In fact, we had made great progress because Ellie is no longer hissing and growling and now lets Abby to get closer, within a 2 feet distance.
A friend told me that I should return Abby to the shelter, but I love her and I don't have the heart to do it. When they finally gave her to me at the shelter, I promised her that she'll be at her forever home, that I'd love her, and I'd never give up on her.
I feel guilt because Ellie may get infected and sick too, but I can't break my promise to Abby of loving and caring her for the rest of her life.
I've read a lot about FHV, and it's said that it is incurable. Cats with the virus can have sporadic flare-ups, but it's said that by managing stressors, and remaining current on vaccines, a pet infected with feline herpes can live a normal lifespan.
So that's why I'm asking you my fellow cat parent, did I make the right decision of keeping Abby despite she could make Ellie sick?
Please give me your advice. As I said above, these two are the first pets I have ever had in my life, and I don't know what to do.
Tl;dr;: rescued a second cat as companion to my first rescued cat, but a few days later she was diagnosed FHV and now I fear for the health of my first. Did I make the right decision by keeping her regarless?