OT: Query re: Spinal Stenosis

[melonpieness]

Sue wrote:

done.This
conclusive


Oh don't worry he will eventually get 'round to that :-)

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Best
Greg

[zinu_angel]

Spinal stenosis is a narrowing of one or more areas in your spine ? most often in your neck or lower back. This narrowing can put pressure on the spinal cord or spinal nerves at the level of compression.

Depending on which nerves are affected, spinal stenosis can cause pain or numbness in your legs, back, neck, shoulders or arms; limb weakness and incoordination; loss of sensation in your extremities; and problems with bladder or bowel function. Pain is not always present, particularly if you have spinal stenosis in your neck.

Spinal stenosis is commonly caused by age-related changes in the spine. In severe cases of spinal stenosis, doctors may recommend surgery to create additional space for the spinal cord or nerves.

[pfsouthside]

Terry Pulliam Burd wrote:

Ask them for versed next time. This is the drug more than one patient
has woken up from and said "and now I remember why I did drugs in high
school". Hub had it this week for a screening colonoscopy and when I was
escorted back he said "I'm groggy, I hope they knock me out before I go
back there". I had to tell him he was already done, yet he was steady on
his feet in 20 minutes. It is a valium-like drug with a very very short
half-life, and thus has to be a "drip" that can be titrated minute to
minute. You don't have to be out, just unpanicked. I say this because
people can get an event like this under their skin and turn it into a
trigger. The first time I had my blood drawn I was fine, but after a
couple of hunt and peck diggers, I developed an unconquerable fainting
tendency that only wore off when preggers, and I had my blood draw quite
a bit.
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