Comments on: Degenerative Disc Disease

By: Ana

Ana — Fri, 20 May 2011 00:02:56 +0000

I am 35 years and just had a mri which finally diagnosed my ddd. Finally I have an answer to all these of severing lower back pain and sciatica pain down my legs. I was just wondering if you did apply for disability and if you got it because with the kind of pain I experience each day and how my life has changed so much within the last two years I haven’t been able to hang on to any job for long due to my condition. I have been thinking about applying for disability myself. If you have any advice or anything you can bring to the table on this subject it will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Ana

By: Bob Lopez

Bob Lopez — Mon, 02 May 2011 01:52:42 +0000

I hurt my back at work in 2010, since then I have been off work since APRIL. I have been told that all my vertabrae and lower disc’s are all degenrative that I will never work again, operation is not a option. I am trying to get some information regarding my problem, but all I see is one or two disc that someone has hurt, nothing about all of them. Does someone have infor regarding this? It would sure help if you did.

By: Susan

Susan — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 13:54:21 +0000

I have been diagnosed with DDD stemming from a herniated disc in my neck. But the pain is also in my thoratic area. My concern is I have acute episodes of extreme pain starting in the middle of my back and radiating throughout my entire body. This starts as a pressure feeling starting mid-back and going around the lower rib area like my body is in a vise. Then the pain gets so bad I have to concentrate on breathing! Then it will start to pulse all over my body, It feels like one big pulsing pain so I can’t function at all. this lasts for anywhere from 10 minutes to over an hour. Now I find that the root pain is not going away just there enough that I can constantly feel it in the middle of my back. Does anyone else have symptoms like this?

By: wynne

wynne — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 18:41:57 +0000

me too but my lumbar spine after six months developed severe stenosis and a possible complication called osteomylitis cystitis and can not walk and on morphine now

By: ray

ray — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 17:32:31 +0000

i have ddd at l4 and l5 15 and s1 with spurs and artristhis and bolding dics with my right hip jiont degenerating also im in constant pain walking sitting and any type of lifting.my whole life is every day dealing with pain chiropratic care didnt work injection a waist of time pysical theorapy also a waist of time im haveing to feight for my ssd. i was a mechanic for 14 years and now im stuck at home losing everything ive worked for.. what ive paied in for 25years to ss and they want to decline me for ssd.i have alot of hate building against the goverment ive never asked for a hand out now that i need it they could care less i feel for everyone with this problem because it can be very painful and it effects every part of ones life

By: Kenneth Cameron Sr.

Kenneth Cameron Sr. — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 06:47:49 +0000

Lets go back to 1964 UVA they fuse L4 L5 then in 1972 fuse L5 L6 then in 1982 then in 1986 samething
2002 put a cage around spine then. had to take it out because the screw holes got loose
In 2008 i was riding in a ambulumas coming back from a Dr. appt when out of the blue a car brod sided use my bacj stared up again now i’m to old to have any more surgery eat pain pills. I have had a bad back for many years! I’m 78 79 in April 2011

By: anna

anna — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 04:02:25 +0000

if you havent had your problem fixed yet,which i hope you have, there is a spine specialist is columbia missouri, he is at the orthopedic group,his name is dr. gaines, that is who my husband is seeing, he specializes in spines. hope this helps, my husband has degenterated disc disease in the lumbar spine his vertabraes all fused together, plus he has a fracture in one of his vertabraes,they r going to do surgery to help him from becoming paralized. so hopefully he can help.

By: cincinnati chiropractor

cincinnati chiropractor — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 07:59:11 +0000

I believe you are going through a lot of pain, please don’t gave up because God never gave up on you.Life must go on no matter what.God Bless everyone.

By: TONY BRUMLEY

TONY BRUMLEY — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 20:18:05 +0000

HEY TERRY : MAN I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE GOING THRU,AND DONY BE ASHAMED ABOUT YOUR PAIN, NO ONE KNOWS WHAT SOME ONE ELSE IS GOING THRU UNLESS YOU HAVE BEEN THERE. PLEASE DONT KILL YOURSELF TRUST ME YOULL BE GLAD LATER THAT YOU DID NOT, I KNOW ,BEEN THERE

By: Terry c

Terry c — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 19:32:39 +0000

I’ve been dealing with DDD since june 4th 2010 I had a terrible fall from a stool in a resturant which cause the flare up. I’m in so much pain everyday. I’m so ashamed at work because people see me crying and I’m a male and we are supposed to be srong. But the pain hurts so bad I can’t take it anymore I want to kill myself