Graybeard
Distinguished member
- Joined
- Sep 24, 2014
- Messages
- 440
- Reason
- PALS
- Diagnosis
- 12/2013
- Country
- US
- State
- Ca
- City
- Surf City
Could back pain be related to ALS? I wrenched my spine in an odd way while crawling over pipes under our old house two years ago, aggravating an old injury that hadn't bothered in many years. The pain started about the time as my appetite loss, and increased as bulbar onset symptoms increased.
MRI showed no space L5-S1, and one neurosurgeon said they were inflamed from being bone on bone. He prescribed heavy doses of Ibuprofen, which I took for a couple of days. Another advanced neurosurgeon recommended only painkillers. A couple of epidurals provided short term relief.
I have no pain sitting, but great pain when I try to stand up straight. I walk like the Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Can any of you relate to this?
MRI showed no space L5-S1, and one neurosurgeon said they were inflamed from being bone on bone. He prescribed heavy doses of Ibuprofen, which I took for a couple of days. Another advanced neurosurgeon recommended only painkillers. A couple of epidurals provided short term relief.
I have no pain sitting, but great pain when I try to stand up straight. I walk like the Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Can any of you relate to this?