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Constant and unbearable back pain over a
period of time is chronic back pain. Over the counter medications to
treat this type of condition, will just give you temporary relief.
Painkillers can not level the back pain area. They can suppress it
for a while and give you the joy you sought for, fort a short
duration. Then you are back to square one- back pain!
What will you do now? This time, you have
decided to get rid of this depressing pain, once for all. For the
last more than six months, you are not responding to any medical or
surgical care. What could be the reason for your chronic pain? It may
be due to an old injury, completely healed, but showing its ugly face
again. The God forbid, it might even be due to an impending cancer
attack, not yet detected by your doctor!
This information is for the people who love statistics. An estimated $ 100 billion a year
in medical costs, working days lost, and compensation paid to the
workers suffering from back pain. Well, such is the pain budget of
USA.
Desperate situations lead you to desperate remedies.
Whether the remedies are worthwhile, it is altogether a different
matter. Even after multiple surgeries, even after taking all sorts of
medicines, when the pain still persists, you indeed cut a sorry
figure about yourself. You become cynical and develop depression. In
such a situation, if someone gives you the idea of spinal pumps and
stimulators, and tells you the related success stories, you are bound
to consider that option as well.
In the final stage of the
chronic back pain, when it becomes unbearable, you suffer from loss
of appetite, nausea, constipation and severe lethargy. This is mainly
due to the medication of painkillers you have taken over a long
period. As a pain controlling exercise, there are instances when the
patients have taken 300 milligrams of morphine per day, to get
relief.
Now the same stuff,
morphine is taken in a different manner, but the quantity is
drastically reduced- just one milligram per day. This is done with
the help of intrathecal spinal pumps.
The
medicine reaches the spot where it is exactly needed. The medicine is
given by implanting surgically a pump under the skin of a person's
abdomen and running a catheter to the correct location in the spine,
in the pain giving area. The medicine thus, provides instant pain
relief and the dose of medication is reduced drastically.
Ason date, chronic back pain sufferers, admit that they are benefited a
lot, with morphine through pump method. In the times to come, you
will hear more opinions about the utility of this system.
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