Esi..csf leak..pdph.. X 2 blood patches..now what!!

[Maria]

Fuzzy,
I did have a surgery after each myelogram. The 2nd one failed terribly which lead to 5 years of awful nerve pain in lower half of body and then residual pain and probs (chronic) and what has helped alleviate the pain besides pain meds has been the 30 ESIs! They do work for some people...

I'm not saying I'm not a surgical case because I've had at least 6 surgical opinions rendering same opinion but I guess I have a great fear of being worse off than I am now and I have reasons for not having more lumbar surgery *yet*.

We each march to our drummer re this whole thing...