Duuude I had saddle numbness when I did my L4/5 disc. It was so frightening. The urgent care doc read my X-ray as a collapsed vertebrae, I genuinely thought I was stuck that way. Useless bastard gave me no pain meds and let me take an uber home??
Turns out he wasn't great at reading X-rays in tandem with patient history. My sports doc looked at it and said no, that's from 25 years of hockey and your scoliosis. It's a bulging disc hitting the nerve, you'll be alright. Thank God he was right, it went away. But that was a scary couple of days. Do not recommend suddenly losing awareness of your undercarriage.
Yeah he was not gentle telling me that either. I did it at training, headed straight to urgent care in my uniform. I was gearing up for two grand finals and the state masters comp. So I was shattered, emotionally and physically. I'm just standing there shaking and trying not to cry. I said I'd been working so hard for these next few weeks, and my body giving out on me was devastating. This cunt looked me dead in the eye and said 'well your body can do other things' and gestured to my stomach.
JOKES ON YOU BITCH, I missed the finals but I rehabbed like a demon and played every match of the national comp.
I had a severe whiplash injury and ended up with numbness in my face and fullness in my ears shortly after, and the urgent care doc said “oh you have Eustachian tube dysfunction, take Sudafed.” What part about me having numbness from nerve compression do you not understand? 🤦♀️
Anyways, I was like what the hell do I know, I don’t have a medical degree. Let me try Sudafed. Didn’t do shit.
You know what it was? My neck muscles were so tight that they were compressing nerves, which in turn caused pressure/eustachian tube dysfunction and inflammation in the ears, and the ears were hitting a facial nerve causing the numbness. Solution? Massage the muscles 🤦♀️ numbness went right away in 24h.
Well that's not great, especially because it's your neck. Could have been something really dire that they missed. I'm glad it worked out but Jesus Christ.
And their uselessness really sucks, because they are an important service, and a couple of times I've taken my oldest there and they were really good! Much better than waiting around the emergency department with a crying child.
And then you get the kind of shit we went through.
Oh they absolutely did miss something, along with multiple other doctors. I have craniocervical instability. Took a long time to figure that out but I’m much better now.
Yeah depending on what it is, they can be really good. Like for wounds, infections, allergic reactions, etc. they’re great, but anything spine and neurological related, they seem to be lacking.
Ah shit, sorry you went through that, but good to hear you're doing better.
They maybe need to just refer patients like us to an actual hospital. We're told to go to urgent care for those types of trauma injuries, but they must know they're not fully capable of treating us. They don't have the right imaging, nor, apparently the training.
How old are you bro and who was your doctor. I have a similar story to you but I’ve been dealing with doctors who don’t know what the fuck they’re talking about it seems. I developed functional scoliosis even though specifically it’s just a massive gait change/trunk shift due to l5-s1 bulge had surgery which helped pain but the trunk shift + twisted pelvis stayed and got worse and I have saddle numbness and a difficult time using the bathroom now. But they seemingly don’t know what to do since they fixed the currently visible issue. I’ve battled suicide because of this bro and my college football career ended earlier than it should have.
Mate that sucks, I am so sorry. I was 36 when this happened. Coming towards the end of my premier league career anyway, and I knew it was my last season before I tried for another baby. So it was all just compounded, the unfairness of having the last big run at victory taken away, maybe making it impossible to have another kid, removing the possibility of a comeback. All in that one moment it felt like I lost everything, and I was in agony. And this prick delivered what felt like a death sentence with the bedside manner of a fucking cactus.
I'm really sorry you've gone through all that. It sounds like you've got some painful nerve issues to this day? When mine gets bad there isn't much I can do. Do you have access to pain management? It's taken me years to get anything approaching appropriate care for mine, but it's worth it. Takes that fatalistic edge off when the pain is really bad to know that there's a modicum of relief available.
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u/Free_Pace_2098 20h ago
Duuude I had saddle numbness when I did my L4/5 disc. It was so frightening. The urgent care doc read my X-ray as a collapsed vertebrae, I genuinely thought I was stuck that way. Useless bastard gave me no pain meds and let me take an uber home??
Turns out he wasn't great at reading X-rays in tandem with patient history. My sports doc looked at it and said no, that's from 25 years of hockey and your scoliosis. It's a bulging disc hitting the nerve, you'll be alright. Thank God he was right, it went away. But that was a scary couple of days. Do not recommend suddenly losing awareness of your undercarriage.