One year ago I was in an auto accident. My friend was driving apparently to slow for the driver behind us and was we started to pull into a parking lot they decided to speed up and try to pass us by using the sidewalk. We were hit at my door and I was turned looking at my friend in the back seat. The police cited her and her ins has accepted 100% fault. I went to the ER for head (I hit the door window) and neck pain and fallowed up with my doc. Since then I have had 3 months PT (he said he could not fix me) and still see the chiro. I had 2 MRI, CAT and several x-rays. I was placed on medications including: Valium, Percocet and Oxycodone initially but after a week asked for something weaker and went to hydrocodone which still left me sleepy so I went to IBfrofin 800, meloxican and Skelaxin. Seen a back specialist too. All agree with my doctor that my SI joint is messed up and my chiro put my back at 20% permanently damaged and will need to see him once a month forever My bills are about 9,000. I don’t want a lawyer to take money from my pain so I don’t want to have one. Now that it has been a year and my doctors say I am as good as I am going to get I was to settle. What should I do? Is there a form I can give my doctors to fill out?

Also I was 12 weeks pregnant and ended up having him at 22 weeks in which he died right after birth. With everything that happen the month after and all the medications could this have been a cause? My doctor that delivered him says he can’t tell me the reason I went into early labor. I was on seasonal and didn’t know I was pregnant till 16 weeks .
Sorry I was not clear, I just mentioned I was turned talking to my friend in the back because my spine was twisted when I was hit and injured. The Lady that hit us was faulted 100%, my friends in the car had nothing to do with my injures and even if they did I would never sue my friends.

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I have a slipped disc (L5) and am starting PT on Monday. I was getting into the bath but backed up into the towel bar and hit almost EXACTLY where I have the pain from the L5 and where they showed me where it was (I have a tattoo there so that’s how I remembered). The pain was white hot when I first did it, still stabbing, but not as bad, it was a little to the left of where the disc is but now my whole lower back hurts REALLY bad (like you know when you hurt yourself so bad you’re in shock and don’t even cry). I don’t know what to do, I took the percocet I have for it, but I’m not sure if I should call my doctor or whatnot. I am lying flat on my back and can wiggle my toes and everything.

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I went to the er yesterday because I thought I had kidney stones, they took a ct, it didn’t show any kidney stones, but it showed that I had a slipped disc (L5). The er doctor gave me percocet and soma for the pain, said to stay off my feet for two days, and told me to follow up with my primary care physician on it. What can be done to fix a slipped disc? I’m in agony!

I’m a 27 years old, female, with celiac disease

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Good morning team, your mission, should your choose to accept it is to suggest concepts that may assist in the pain management of a disc injury.

As background this is the second time I have ruptured this disc and yes it is L4/L5, as usual. Two of my three siblings have each had at least one similar event if not more, each of us has undergone a surgery for each previous injury. We each lead an active life, for example I originally injured my disc while doing some tech diving and a year after the injury my spouse and I completed a ½-marithon. I provide this information in the hopes a doc out there can help. This injury occurred in January, at the time I believe the disc was only bulging but instead of letting it heal I continued with my normal activities and complicated the injury.

I am currently taking 2-7.5 Lortab’s along with 1200 mg of Gabapentin three times a day (at least). On top of that I commonly take 800mg of ibuprofen twice a day and an occasional Percocet in the

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