Getting my wife to go to the doctor?

Here's the way it works with backs. Doctors do everything they can before doing any real studies for a diagnosis that's something more of a catch all like degenerative disk disease. The reason is every human spine has some irregularity, be it a disk bulge or vertebra out of alignment, anything. We are just built poorly to stand on two legs and put ourselves through awkward positions while fighting gravity out whole lives, Everybody has something.

However not everybody gets pain from it. Those that do can usually be helped by a combination of medications when they aren't afraid to prescribe something that actually works on pain and physical therapy. If a first course (usually like 6-8 weeks) doesn't do it, they begin again perhaps with a different medication and different physical therapies in mind. The thought behind avoidance of any diagnostic testing is that once you tell a patient they have a bad disk, cause of the pain or not, they change their normal motions and tend to baby the area, not fully participating in physical therapy, not getting full benefit from it.

But most of the time a duck is a duck. Back pain in the general problem area and logically associated transferred nerve pain is hard to argue with, but it's still worth a shot at PT to see what happens. It does not take long to get frustrated with the whole mess by numbers deal, but once they call a problem and location the treatments become more specific and invasive too. There's still a lot of trial and error, but from that point it's to keep you out of the operating room, which can make a mountain out of a smaller mountain. I don't know if the logic behind it makes it more bearable or not, but that's the thinking behind it.

She will need at minimum an X ray and an MRI, one for hard structures like bones the other for soft tissues like disks. Even when the reports come back from the radiologist all in med-speak with lots of Latin in them, you can still expect the doctor to be vague. I've seen radiologists conclusions noting all kinds of problems and doctor call the normal studies and order up more rounds of physical therapy. Back pain is one of the most common complaints and one of the most difficult things to treat. They are usually real happy at that point if they can get the patient to consider a neurosurgeon, neurologist, orthopedist, pain specialist, chiropractor, you name it. I've done more than a few radiology translations as have others, so you may want to pop it up here and get some real opinions as to what going on.

More info on the pain like feeling, location, severity, other areas of involvement (usually you can call the disk in the lower back by how the pain radiates in to the legs), just as much as you can give. Pain from 1-10 is kind of useless. Your 8 might have me in an ambulance.

Any doctor, including the one you are seeing can request all the testing. Start with imaging studies and just come right out and tell him you're done playing you want to look. There are other tests down the road if it looks as though it may better define a problem and a cure. Avoid a myelogram, they're painful and the other tests should nail things down by then. It is 2011 but what they can do for bad backs has not advanced much since the 50's. It's actually gotten worse since the fear of pain drugs for pain has become such a big deal, and many go untreated through ignorance, their own or their physicians. The media has them terrified and the patients pay the price.

But let us not get ahead of ourselves. May be something very basic and uncomplicated, but you have a right to demand diagnosis testing even while they do whatever concurrent treatments they want to try. Tell your wife to buck up and your both hang in there. Take care of each other best you can, it will go much easier, as it can get rough at times. Don't ignore your mental health, don't let it make you crazy. Doctors are our employees. If you need to fire the guy, fire the guy, Good luck

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The times she has seen a doc did they ever give a diagnosis at all, or only meds? Which area of her back hurts? All, Top, Mid, Lower? Are all of her issues restricted to ONLY her back...no other oddities in arms or legs? The more info the better. I ask because I was a back pain sufferer and am now disabled & I will be 38 this month. Easier to mail that chat here. If you are at all interested in delving deeper into this shoot me a mail to jbs_fanci@ayahoo.com Just took one of my meds sooooo not real sure how much longer I'll be up *LOL*