What an interesting case! I'm just glad they found a doctor who took their description of pain seriously and didn't just write them off as attention or drug seeking. I've seen physicians and nurses literally get angry with a patient for presenting like this one did with severe pain.
It happened to me. I had the same thing and it nearly killed me. My surgeon did just that. It was in my file he thought I was a pill seeker. Thanks to his neglect, I am on tons of medication now just to have a quality of life from all the damage the infection did.
In Jan of 2019, I woke up one morning, got up and faceplanted on the floor, unable to walk. Then the severe back spasm pain followed. Was seen in three different hospitals, two mri's (one with contast, one without). I had no other symptoms with the exception of an elevated CRP, so all hospitals sent me home, still unable to walk AND SEVERE pain. Followed up with a neurosurgeon 5 weeks later. I brought him both MRI's from the hospitals. He suspected infection from the mri WITH CONTRAST. biopsy showed bacterial infection in the L5 vertebra. Did 6 weeks of broad spectrum antibiotics via a PICC line. The hospitals treated me like some kind of degenerate drug hunter. Infectious Disease never provided insight on how I got this infection I have PTSD from this horrible experience, mostly because of NOT having a proper diagnosis. I had to basically learn how to walk again that took a TOTAL time of 4 months. My question is this... had the hospitals done a lumbar punch help with a better chance of diagnosis? I spent the first month in bed googling why I couldn't walk which was the most frustrating part! Now, I'm "healed", but fear that this could happen again. BTW, I was 52 when this happened, with no previous surgeries, no drug use.
Last August I contracted mersa infection in my entire spinal column. I presented at the local emergency department twice before I was Diagnosed with mersa and severe sepis. It was so serious that I was admitted and placed on a ventilator.
This is me at 15 basically same thing. Never got the spine fixed just the infection. Now 30 years later I hert everyday and Noone can really help. It's like having horrible arthritis in the middle of your back. No one believes me about it but one dr and he saying it's better to leave it alone for fixing it could have worse pain and paralyzed in the end do to the location . Mine happened at t10 t11 . This is hard to talk about but my life is very hard because of this infection. I got it from having phenomena and it went to my back
Hola. Tengo lo mismo. Una bacteria se comió el disco y vértebras dañadas. Dicitis. Ya hace 6 meses. Y el seguro aquí en México apenas me van a hacer cirugía. Un ingerto en el disco y una placa y tornillos. En un mes más. No puedo caminar sólo algunos pasos en andadera. Gracias por su opinión Dra
How long will it take for my neurosurgeons glue to be absorbed by my body? He had to suture and use glue when he knicked my spinal cord for L4/5 discectomy and laminectomy. I saw him today and was told the glue gathering where the disc was is why i am having a new onset of back pain sometimes radiating into one leg.
Thank you for the video. I have a similar case with me but in my case I was paraplegic within 2days so I did MRI and result it's in between D4 to D9 it shows abscess and haematoma .So I have undergone surgery on 22nd August 2022. biopsy report shows chronic osteomylitis so treated with antibiotic. But still my bowel and bladder is disturbing and cannot walk.
I’m so sorry for ur situation. I had surgery as well but I caught my infection in time n fortunately I can walk again but I had to stay in the hospital three weeks for anti biotics n another 3 weeks for the rest of the treatment in a skilled nursing home. I have sum trouble walking n I still feel some pain but I thank god I can still move. The pain was so severe that I couldn’t stand sit or lay. It was horrible.
Me too. T5 through T12 with a burst fracture at T7 and endplate erosion at the top of T8. Spinal epidural abscess and osteomyelitis. They fused my entire thoracic with 480mm rods and 12 screws, then my body was like NAH F THAT and spit the hardware out. Being burned alive would have been preferable, the pain was 10/10. Yes I got it from shooting dope so it's my own fault.
What an interesting case! I'm just glad they found a doctor who took their description of pain seriously and didn't just write them off as attention or drug seeking. I've seen physicians and nurses literally get angry with a patient for presenting like this one did with severe pain.
It happened to me. I had the same thing and it nearly killed me. My surgeon did just that. It was in my file he thought I was a pill seeker. Thanks to his neglect, I am on tons of medication now just to have a quality of life from all the damage the infection did.
In Jan of 2019, I woke up one morning, got up and faceplanted on the floor, unable to walk. Then the severe back spasm pain followed. Was seen in three different hospitals, two mri's (one with contast, one without). I had no other symptoms with the exception of an elevated CRP, so all hospitals sent me home, still unable to walk AND SEVERE pain. Followed up with a neurosurgeon 5 weeks later. I brought him both MRI's from the hospitals. He suspected infection from the mri WITH CONTRAST. biopsy showed bacterial infection in the L5 vertebra. Did 6 weeks of broad spectrum antibiotics via a PICC line.
The hospitals treated me like some kind of degenerate drug hunter.
Infectious Disease never provided insight on how I got this infection
I have PTSD from this horrible experience, mostly because of NOT having a proper diagnosis. I had to basically learn how to walk again that took a TOTAL time of 4 months.
My question is this... had the hospitals done a lumbar punch help with a better chance of diagnosis? I spent the first month in bed googling why I couldn't walk which was the most frustrating part!
Now, I'm "healed", but fear that this could happen again. BTW, I was 52 when this happened, with no previous surgeries, no drug use.
Hi thank you for sharing, my father is going through a similar situation. Do you recall what antibiotics they treated you with?
Last August I contracted mersa infection in my entire spinal column. I presented at the local emergency department twice before I was Diagnosed with mersa and severe sepis. It was so serious that I was admitted and placed on a ventilator.
This is me at 15 basically same thing. Never got the spine fixed just the infection. Now 30 years later I hert everyday and Noone can really help. It's like having horrible arthritis in the middle of your back. No one believes me about it but one dr and he saying it's better to leave it alone for fixing it could have worse pain and paralyzed in the end do to the location . Mine happened at t10 t11 . This is hard to talk about but my life is very hard because of this infection. I got it from having phenomena and it went to my back
Hola. Tengo lo mismo. Una bacteria se comió el disco y vértebras dañadas. Dicitis. Ya hace 6 meses. Y el seguro aquí en México apenas me van a hacer cirugía. Un ingerto en el disco y una placa y tornillos. En un mes más. No puedo caminar sólo algunos pasos en andadera. Gracias por su opinión Dra
How long will it take for my neurosurgeons glue to be absorbed by my body? He had to suture and use glue when he knicked my spinal cord for L4/5 discectomy and laminectomy. I saw him today and was told the glue gathering where the disc was is why i am having a new onset of back pain sometimes radiating into one leg.
Thank you for the video. I have a similar case with me but in my case I was paraplegic within 2days so I did MRI and result it's in between D4 to D9 it shows abscess and haematoma .So I have undergone surgery on 22nd August 2022. biopsy report shows chronic osteomylitis so treated with antibiotic. But still my bowel and bladder is disturbing and cannot walk.
I’m so sorry for ur situation. I had surgery as well but I caught my infection in time n fortunately I can walk again but I had to stay in the hospital three weeks for anti biotics n another 3 weeks for the rest of the treatment in a skilled nursing home. I have sum trouble walking n I still feel some pain but I thank god I can still move. The pain was so severe that I couldn’t stand sit or lay. It was horrible.
This happened to me. MRSA t4 to t11
Me too. T5 through T12 with a burst fracture at T7 and endplate erosion at the top of T8. Spinal epidural abscess and osteomyelitis. They fused my entire thoracic with 480mm rods and 12 screws, then my body was like NAH F THAT and spit the hardware out. Being burned alive would have been preferable, the pain was 10/10. Yes I got it from shooting dope so it's my own fault.
Don’t do heroine kids
I pray you never get this. I truly do.
@@judgejenny2251 thank you