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Originally Posted by Big Dave  I've been in that situation myself. If you have something impinging on your spinal cord, they like to operate. The nerve damage that leaves, however, can lead to neuropathic pain - the nerves fire off pain signals irrationally because they're damaged. You need one of the drugs I mentioned to treat that, as traditional narcotic painkillers will not stop the nerves firing. |
Thanks for the advice. I appreciate it.
I've been lucky though as there doesn't seem to be much damage. Things could have been very different though as they didn't know about the multiple nerves and the surgeon told me when he lifted up the nerve to remove the cartilage etc from underneath it he nearly severed the second nerve not realising what it was.
There was no way to know which was the "true" nerve. So its possible I could have been paralysed down one side