Beloved,
You read it right; Intradiscal Electrothermal Annuloplasty; that is the next plan for my lower back. My injections went well yesterday, we laughed and talked and he SAID I WAS A TROOPER!. But it really did hurt. While shooting my back up; I heard the young intern say something about; "that being a full moon".???
This new proceedure is a minimally invasive proceedure that is an alternative to screws, straps and titanium.
I was reading along ......and then I read where they put the catheter inside the subject's disc, pressing against the posterior edge of the annulus!!!!!
Immediately my butt cheeks tightened so hard and so fast that I broke the chair I was sitting on! Cripes!!!
Pressing on the annulus seems completely unnecessary to me. Then they heat this electrode that denatures the collagen of the annulus!! Ouch! I want my mama!! And that coagulates (here we go again) the nerve endings, with the ultimate goal of relieving back pain. Answer me this: how in tarnation can pressing against my annulus, speeding chemicals into my back hulp me?
I am in a dither.
A LITTLE further downin the reading ( not my back) it says, that this method is not completely understood!!! And that hydrostatic pressure may lead to buckling of the annular lamella….. All I need is some kind of carbunckle..
Beloved, I don’t want to be a trooper, I donot want to be stalagmite, but I do want to feel better!!
Let me a draw a conclusion. I love God, the people on this site, I try to be a good neighbor, but if Anklyslosing Spondy was a man: I would break him in half and feed him to the hogs; without much regret.
Thanks for listening.
I am struggling to keep working.
Trooper Lon or just T.L
