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Hi Jill yes I was diagnosed with this condition but I am using exercise to ease the pain. Won’t stop me doing another Camino probably Sept 2021This is a long shot, but thought I’d ask anyway. Is there anyone on this forum who also suffers this condition? I can move this thread to personal messaging if preferred. I’m not looking for medical information, just a support group. Thank you for any replies.
Jill
Hi Jill yes I was diagnosed with this condition but I am using exercise to ease the pain. Won’t stop me doing another Camino probably Sept 2021
cortisone shots are what have helped the most
Hi, how long do they last for you, before the pain starts again?
Just found this! Thank you, @jsalt & @madhurivivit ! Helps so much to be able to put names and possible treatments to this problem! Love your doc's reply, Jill!
Buen Camino!
I DO like your philosophy that reducing the pains could help get the exercise needed to strengthen the supportive muscles!
NOW you do core exercises while you are pain free – and when the pain kicks in again, he said, we’ll look at a rhizotomy. Google it.
Haven't done it.The cortisone injections have worn off, and the pain returned. I am scheduled for the rhizotomy procedure in two days time. Anyone else here had that done? Anything I should know?
I so much want to get on that plane to Spain in January - covid I can cope with!
I’m hoping everything goes well Jill. (If it’s meant to be ) ie If anyone can swing it- you can. !I so much want to get on that plane to Spain in January - covid I can cope with!
I have considered all these options for my debilitating facet joint arthritis and despite excruciating pain taking the Napoleon way three years ago (thank you hospitaleros for your help and concern in Roncevalles) I am prepared to soldier on for the Aragones Camino next May. I will walk til I cannot walk any longer and my heart goes out to those in a similar condition. Buen Camino.Haven't done it.
Please report back to us!
And very good wishes for your procedure and result.
I have this form of arthritis in my thoracic, lumbar and sacral spine.
All my physician says is "Everyone your age has this...." but my god, if I mis-step on a down-step, or have inadequate support in a sofa (at my mother's for example) the pain feels like I've been hit with an electric bat when I try to move...
And then there are the sleep disruptions.
And this is why I am planning the Norte for later this spring... do it now, while I still have some hills left in me, before I can no longer carry my pack...
Edit: in general, Canadians do not have access to this surgical route unless we are in danger of losing mobility and are very young, or are professionals who rely on our bodies for our income (think: dancers, athletes). Others might still benefit from the information.
Oh... H-e-double-hockey sticks and hot-spit (as my aunt used to say).I was all prepped to go into hospital at 6am tomorrow morning, but it has all been postponed due to an emergency that needs my theatre slot. My op has been postponed to 11 January.
My grandson’s flight from the UK to here has been cancelled as we’re red listed again. Won’t see him now for another year. That’s my pain-free family Xmas ruined.
Finding life a bit challenging at the moment, but realize that others have it far worse. Just needed to cry on someone’s shoulder – thanks for listening. I’ll feel better tomorrow.
I should add that after every imaginable alternative therapy, cortisone shots are what have helped the most. I also have it in the lower spine and elsewhere. It has not stopped me from traveling.
Sorry it took so long to respond. I didn’t see your question until this morning. I had a cervical rhizotomy day before yesterday. Fingers crossed. I also had lovely people helping me at the surgical center.Two years on, and just thought I’d post an update, in case anyone else on this forum has osteoarthritis in the lower spine, and wondering if they can still walk the camino.
The rhizotomy procedure lasted about 5 months. The nerves grew back, I made the wrong move, and I was flat on my back again in agony.
I ended up back in hospital, and the specialist said “I can do nothing more for you” – well, it WAS Sunday morning.
I understood what he meant; he dealt with REAL spinal problems - like car accidents - not minor things like arthritis grabbing the spinal nerve.
As he started to walk away, I said, desperately, “well, can I at least have the cortisone injections again”, and he said OK. So that’s what I do now; every 6 months or so he writes out a prescription for “facet joint infiltrations”.
And so we're back to post No. 6 in this thread:
How's it going @madhurivivit ?
I walked most of the Camino Invierno in Sep/Oct last year, and now planning the Camino Primitivo in Sep this year. Still hanging in there . . . Jill
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