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[MinnesotaEric]

Congrats on your dock project.For a guy who is disabled you seem to get a lot of projects done.

All physical work takes me much longer than it should take to get done. I wouldn't wish it on anybody.

 

[coobie]

All physical work takes me much longer than it should take to get done. I wouldn't wish it on anybody.

I hear ya..Not much fun getting older and doing a physical job/task around my house.It takes me a lot longer than it used to.

 

[MinnesotaEric]

I hear ya..Not much fun getting older and doing a physical job/task around my house.It takes me a lot longer than it used to.

I'm only 46 years old. I haven't been able to ride motorcycles, ATVs because of back problems. I haven't even shoot billiards for the last ten years due to neck problems and I've had two operations to handle problems with tendons screwing up. I'm still suffering neck problems from the auto shifting Kubota 135X I operated last winter and nobody can tell me what is wrong. I wish my problems were just age related but they seem consistent with negative side effects from cipro, a Bayer product that I was exposed to as a component in the anthrax vaccination from Desert Storm or possibly from an ACL reconstruction surgery when I was 18 years old. A Department of Defense report (see page 18) claims that some 84% of those of us who received the anthrax shot have suffered some negative side effects with 24% of us experiencing systematic problems consistent to what I'm experiencing. At any-rate, life has been different for me since my mid-twenties and I wouldn't wish the problems and degenerating pain I experience upon anybody.

 

[murphy1244]

I'm only 46 years old. I haven't been able to ride motorcycles, ATVs because of back problems. I haven't even shoot billiards for the last ten years due to neck problems and I've had two operations to handle problems with tendons screwing up. I'm still suffering neck problems from the auto shifting Kubota 135X I operated last winter and nobody can tell me what is wrong. I wish my problems were just age related but they seem consistent with negative side effects from cipro, a Bayer product that I was exposed to as a component in the anthrax vaccination from Desert Storm or possibly from an ACL reconstruction surgery when I was 18 years old. A Department of Defense report (see page 18) claims that some 84% of those of us who received the anthrax shot have suffered some negative side effects with 24% of us experiencing systematic problems consistent to what I'm experiencing. At any-rate, life has been different for me since my mid-twenties and I wouldn't wish the problems and degenerating pain I experience upon anybody.

Thank you for your service Eric.

 

[Threepoint]

[snip]
Oh, and just this evening I accepted an offer on the city house. There are a number of standard contingencies (financing, assessing, interest rate lock-in), but as soon as those cook off, I can hang my sold flag on my real estate sign!

Congratulations, Eric. Hope this goes through. Does it mean you'll be wintering in balmy Nevis this year?

 

[MinnesotaEric]

Congratulations, Eric. Hope this goes through. Does it mean you'll be wintering in balmy Nevis this year?

I hope so! If all goes well, the contingencies should be removed by the end of Friday and then I swing into moving stuff mode!

 

[IslandTractor]

I'm only 46 years old. I haven't been able to ride motorcycles, ATVs because of back problems. I haven't even shoot billiards for the last ten years due to neck problems and I've had two operations to handle problems with tendons screwing up. I'm still suffering neck problems from the auto shifting Kubota 135X I operated last winter and nobody can tell me what is wrong. I wish my problems were just age related but they seem consistent with negative side effects from cipro, a Bayer product that I was exposed to as a component in the anthrax vaccination from Desert Storm or possibly from an ACL reconstruction surgery when I was 18 years old. A Department of Defense report (see page 18) claims that some 84% of those of us who received the anthrax shot have suffered some negative side effects with 24% of us experiencing systematic problems consistent to what I'm experiencing. At any-rate, life has been different for me since my mid-twenties and I wouldn't wish the problems and degenerating pain I experience upon anybody.

I hope you are working with a good academic pain clinic at Wayne State or UMichigan. There are an awful lot of quacks out there preying on folks with undiagnosed pain syndromes.

Anthrax vaccine has been a hot potato issue for decades now but there is no evidence that soldiers who received the vaccine had higher rates of medical discharge from the service than those who did not receive the vaccine. Sulsky SI, Luippold R, Garman P, Hughes H, Boyko EJ, Maynard C, Amoroso PJ. Disability among US Army Veterans vaccinated against anthrax. Vaccine. 2012 Sep 21;30(43):6150-6. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2012.07.067. Epub 2012 Aug 5. PubMed PMID: 22874851.

Not sure who told you Ciprofloxacin was possibly related but there is no evidence the FDA has seen that suggests a chronic back/neck pain syndrome. There is a peripheral neuropathy but that would not manifest as neck/back pain.

If you had surgery at 18yo then you were not likely exposed to Cipro then as it wasn't licensed until Oct 1987 and would not have been prescribed by an orthopedic surgeon as part of an ACL reconstruction then as they typically used Keflex. I suppose it is conceivable you got Cipro if the surgery was late in 87 and some drug rep talked them into Cipro but orthopods did not use much Cipro ever.) (Warning Doctor joke: What's the difference between an orthopedic surgeon and a carpenter? Answer: Carpenter knows the names of two antibiotics).

Bottom line: neck and back pain syndromes are often very difficult to deal with for both physician and patient. Just make sure you are getting a second opinion from someone who is in an academic environment.

 

[Luke'sScreenName]

I hope you are working with a good academic pain clinic at Wayne State or UMichigan. There are an awful lot of quacks out there preying on folks with undiagnosed pain syndromes.

Anthrax vaccine has been a hot potato issue for decades now but there is no evidence that soldiers who received the vaccine had higher rates of medical discharge from the service than those who did not receive the vaccine. Sulsky SI, Luippold R, Garman P, Hughes H, Boyko EJ, Maynard C, Amoroso PJ. Disability among US Army Veterans vaccinated against anthrax. Vaccine. 2012 Sep 21;30(43):6150-6. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2012.07.067. Epub 2012 Aug 5. PubMed PMID: 22874851.

Not sure who told you Ciprofloxacin was possibly related but there is no evidence the FDA has seen that suggests a chronic back/neck pain syndrome. There is a peripheral neuropathy but that would not manifest as neck/back pain.

If you had surgery at 18yo then you were not likely exposed to Cipro then as it wasn't licensed until Oct 1987 and would not have been prescribed by an orthopedic surgeon as part of an ACL reconstruction then as they typically used Keflex. I suppose it is conceivable you got Cipro if the surgery was late in 87 and some drug rep talked them into Cipro but orthopods did not use much Cipro ever.) (Warning Doctor joke: What's the difference between an orthopedic surgeon and a carpenter? Answer: Carpenter knows the names of two antibiotics).

Bottom line: neck and back pain syndromes are often very difficult to deal with for both physician and patient. Just make sure you are getting a second opinion from someone who is in an academic environment.

Spoken like a true academic! LoL. Lot of good jokes about knuckle-dragging orthopedic surgeon but that is one of my favorites. As Homer Simpson said: "lt's funny because it's true!"

 

[IslandTractor]

Spoken like a true academic! LoL. Lot of good jokes about knuckle-dragging orthopedic surgeon but that is one of my favorites. As Homer Simpson said: "lt's funny because it's true!"

It's not that the community guys aren't as good but rather that you know the academics aren't doing it purely for the money. Chronic pain patients, especially with an obscure or undetermined etiology for their pain, are the targets of numerous unscrupulous quacks who are glad to step in when the decent docs can't come up with a quick fix. I have a neighbor whose brother in law is being prescribed 900 !!! percocet per month for chronic pain. Absolute malpractice but the brother in law won't tell us who the prescriber is so we can report him.

 

[Luke'sScreenName]

I suspect in this instance you are correct. I am just saying an academic center (especially in July) is often a very frightening place.
If I needed a lumbar epidural steroid injection or my gallbladder out, an academic institution would be the last place you would find me!
But we digress...