I'm sorry to hear of your back woes.... I hope they find something to relieve your pains
seems the only way to stay healthy is not to visit the Dr and tell him/her about your aches and pains but it seems your not the only one to win that cruise ship ticket of spodylo whatever lol I went to my neuro 9/1 and they're suppose to schedule me for shots in the back
All I can say from my prior experience of shots in the back is
RUN!! Run fast!! Run as fast as you can!! The only good thing that came from my supposed pain management shots is that they had a couple straps across my upper thighs and middle back so I couldn't move. Had I been able to get free, this 5'5", 65 year old great grandma would have changed that doctor's occupation from doctor to astronaut, because she would still be in orbit (and I got those shots in November 2015)
When they took the straps off, they very wisely had a large male nurse take me back to the room to get dressed and get my "going home instructions". When he tried to talk to me I told Troubleshooter to take him out in the hall for his own protection. Troubleshooter later told me he had never seen me that mad in the 43 years we've been married. To add insult to injury the shots only worked as pain killers for
EIGHT hours (but during those eight hours I managed to get all my Thanksgiving dinner baking done)
My neurosurgeon apologizes to me to this very day whenever that subject comes up. He still says that those shots are supposed to work much better than that and not cause such pain. Well, all i can say is my much bigger, 6'5" 250lb, nephew got the same type of shot from a different facility and they had to sedate him until everything wore off. So it isn't just me who has trouble with the shots.

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I hope you have a much better experience than Matt and I did. I'm probably looking at fusion of three or four of my lumbar vertebrae as they slip appox 9mm when I bend. Too much hard living as a kid I guess (baling hay, training horses, regular farm work that we all did and thought nothing of at the time).