Its very painful and hard to walk to with this i felt like i had a board nailed to my hips. Thought it might be arther to???

Don't get angry with my next suggestion cuz my LLMD told me it would'nt work and I don't know if I set myself up for future problems as yet not presenting themselves...and I know we're supposed to stay cleare of steroids but...

right after my right total knee replacement in 99 I developed excruciating radiculating pain in my right hip. I let them put in a caudal block in my spine. My LLMD at the time told me it would'nt work but it did the very first of the three injections. I did'nt have any pain there that was real serious since. That pain never came back (yet).
Just recently I (as we speak) am experiencing aggravation of my left sciatica brought on by the oxycontin's constipating effect on me. I am due for left total knee replacement the 25th of this month...if I experience the same herxiemer and radiculating pain as I did with the right knee...I will once again ask to have the caudal block administered...cuz it worked and I was at pain level WOW12 and could'nt take it and do PT. Now for some it won't work and for some it seems to last from a month to a year...but I think worth looking into....................the zman

I strongly suggest he find out exactly where the pain is coming from first. Then take the appropriate measures.

Personlly, I have found a good yoga teacher. Appropriately taught back exercises have helped me more than anything.

Again, it depends on what's causing the pain.

That's what was going on with me. The bed, although only 4 years old and a top-of-the-line mattress, had a 2 inch sag. I replaced my bed with a SleepNumber bed (air filled).. Heaven. No more lower back pain.

My LLMd suggested I up the acidophillus & Collace as a way to combat the binding effecr of pain meds/

I'm so sorry to hear of your husband's back pain. I am seeing a neurosurgeon next week for a re-ruptured lumbar disk myself . I had surgery to repair it a year ago.

Let me preface this next section by stating that I hate painkillers and almost never took an aspirin before my back went out (just as I hated abx and always avoided them before lyme), but I have been forced to understand why some people use them.

If he's screaming in agony (been there, done that), oxycontin should help by putting him basically out of it for a while. If he has pain that sometimes stops him in his tracks, or if he spasms up at night like I do, hydrocodone works for me for that. Someone else mentioned Flexeril - maybe worth a try.

If he has generalized lower back pain that bugs him constantly, extra-strength ibuprofen or bextra handles that for me, and when the pain was not too bad, I've used Dolisos brand homeopathic backache remedy with success, even though I was on abx which theoretically should have kept the homeopathic from working.

But as everyone above says, it is imperative to find out the exact cause of the pain. An MRI is in order.

If he has a compressed but not ruptured disk, there's a technique called Vax-D that I've heard good things about. It's basically "The Rack".

I really don't know if my back problems are "due to" lyme, though some people feel theirs are. Had I not made that assumption myself and seen a back specialist when I had my "warnings", I might have avoided surgery...and possibly another one in the near future.

There may be other factors that predispose him to lower back problems, so I hope you will see this through with the doc and don't ignore it.

Good luck,

Sue

This Alpha Stim can be used anywhere Laney, I am not sure what the difference between the one you found and this one is, but I will check next Wednesday when we go back to the Dr. and let you know. It does bring him alot of relief for several weeks.

Though lyme certainly may play a role in my lumbar disk degeneration, I chalked up the warning signs to lyme. Only when I landed on the floor with spasms through my butt to my feet in both legs and couldn't get up for about 5 hours, was it found that I had a ruptured disk.

If that's the case, lyme tx will not repair the disk. Please, have him get an MRI. If my bulging disk had been caaught before it ruptured and treated preventatively, I may not have needed surgery and caused this chain of events that will probably require more surgery.

People with back problems can be bitten by a tick.