0_gauge_novice Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 I wish you all the best Steve. Recover quickly! You need to push the S160 :-P Cheers Andreas 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted June 13, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 13, 2015 All the best Steve. No rushing post op, and only do what the physioterrorist tell you, no more or no less. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simond Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 Yeah, Steve, even if you're not doing much, keep posting! Good luck Simon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
asa Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 All the very best Steve. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
3 link Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 All the best Matey, I'm over in Guernsey at present so I have only just caught up with your news, so all the best and keep on posting how your getting on. Martyn. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozzyo Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 All the best Steve, will give you a bell in a week or so. OzzyO. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve fay Posted June 14, 2015 Author Share Posted June 14, 2015 (edited) Cancelled !!! Just had a call from the hospital. Back on the waiting list now hopefully be within the next two to three weeks Thank you all for your support it is graciously received Edited June 14, 2015 by steve fay Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffP Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 Mine was cancelled...TWICE. On the third go round they were about to cancel again, telling me I'd receive another appointment by post, when I said, "Don't bother.......I'll hang myself tonight!" Magically, they found me a space. Sometimes it pays to moan.........my first appointment was cancelled after waiting over a year for some lady who had just done hers....and "couldn't stand the pain!". Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve fay Posted June 16, 2015 Author Share Posted June 16, 2015 (edited) I have my Gas Cordon for sale as its surplus to requirements, it's built from a WEP kit with extra details & compensation. Built, painted & weathered all by Michelle Davidson. I have the correct wagon for this project being scratch built that's why I'm selling it. PM for price and more pictures. Sold Edited June 18, 2015 by steve fay 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les Johnson Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 Steve, best of luck mate. My daughter was rushed into Walton Hosp in Liverpool 2 yrs ago with severe pain down her right side ,after complaint to her doctor for months of pain and pins and needles in her side and back, and having been sent home by our local hospital a week earlier, told it was sciatica and to take painkillers. When she got Walton, they were ready prepped and rushed into theatre. Four hous later they had removed a disc which was crushing the nerve sack. She was out after a week, but had a dropped foot and was limping terribly. She is OK now thank God, but it took a long time. The doctors at Walton really told her off because she hadn't gone sooner(although as I say she had been to local GP and had had scans at our local hosp! ) Walton said she had developed corda Aquino and could have been paralysed if she had left it any longer!dont want to worry you but as ?I said don't leave it! Cheers Les Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TrevorP1 Posted June 18, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 18, 2015 Sorry to hear about the various back problems on here. In my personal and painful experience GPs are not to be rusted with back problems. My advice is to see a chiropractor, they really do know what they are talikng about. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simond Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 I found this helpful http://www.amazon.co.uk/Treat-Your-Back-Robin-McKenzie/dp/0959804927 best Simon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve fay Posted June 18, 2015 Author Share Posted June 18, 2015 I spoke to the hospital today, it looks like it could be another 3 to 4 weeks before I will be admitted! When it first happened nearly 3 years ago I seen a few doctors at my GP and as usual was sent for Physio which lasted 6 months, after much complaint I finally convinced them to MRI scan my back. As soon as they seen the results I was told Physio was no good and could have being doing more harm. It is a very painful thing to deal with especially trying to explain you have a bad back but the pain in your foot today is very bad or any where down my left hand side. It's the usual thing when on the face nothing appears wrong with you but inside you feel terrible. It's been a long time coming so I was very disappointed to have it cancelled. I know it's not going to fix everything but to have some relief would be nice even if it's just for a few years. Thanks again for all you kind wishes it's much appreciated. On a different note my good friend Rob has completed the switch rails and crossing V's for the next two points and he is going to make a start on the last point and double slip. Hopefully we can get back to track laying in the autumn. I am keeping busy on other things and work is continuing on the 94 pannier, we have all the bits together and CAD work is under way. We are also working on doing a kit of the GWR bullion Van which will be assembled in the same way as the JLTRT fruit D kit. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jintyman Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 Good luck with the operation Steve, I've had over 14 operations on my leg after an accident at work in 1990, and it took a specialist at Gobowen to recognise just what I'd been complaining about some 20 years after my original accident!!! Needless to say, after two operations and some good physio, I can now walk with some semblance of normality. Keep fighting your corner mate, it's what you pay your NI for (Supposedly!!) Look forward to seeing some more track done, I'm just waiting for some 12" sleepers so I can start on my double junction. Jinty 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 Spent two years using elbow crutches as I couldn't feel my feet and in chronic pain. Operation at the Royal Orthopedic on my spine to remove 3 prolapsed discs and additional bone growth and vola pain free and walking normally. Hang in there. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simond Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 I was one of the lucky ones - no operation, and pretty much able to whatever I want - but when it was bad, it was b****y awful. Hang in there, it'll get sorted. Best Simon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Siberian Snooper Posted June 19, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 19, 2015 My S3 disc has a tear in it, it took 12 years to get an MRI scan to find out what it was, but the surgeon intimated that the op may not be successful, so I am holding fire. My weather forecasts have become fairly accurate of those years, especially predicting cold and or wet weather. Left leg sciatica is pretty much the predominante pain area. I hope you soon get your op and are returned to full fitness. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve fay Posted June 19, 2015 Author Share Posted June 19, 2015 It's a bit of a juggling act. I had to beg for the MRI even when I was told by my Physio that I wouldn't want the Op any way. I said I think that's my decision to make. The success rate for the procedure isn't the best as I have a sensitive sciatic nerve and another two dead Discs! But as I'm only 35 I'm not exactly at retirement age so I have to try it and being on a lot of medication isn't something I won't long term. It was quite embarrassing for a while when I was slurring and struggling to get my words out due to the side effects. I have also been told by more than one doctor that I have to change my profession so that's also something that needs a lot of thought in the future. Thank God for trains as I honestly wouldn't know what to do with my days. The only down side is it gives me far far to many ideas for layouts I neither have the time or finances to build!! So il just stick with the three for the time being!!! I know I've said it a few times but honestly your support means a lot, as quite a few of you know constant pain is a big drain on your system and your piece of mind. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simond Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 (edited) your decision, but you'd surely want to take the advice of the guys that do the op, before committing. I managed to fall whilst skiing two winters ago on the same shoulder three times in three days. And then drove home, 800kms. Result = frozen shoulder. Occasionally briefly excruciatingly painful, but not in the same way that sciatic pain is mind-numbing, incessant & intense. Discussed options with a specialist; A) Steroid injections - hurts like hell, remote possibility of infection, doesn't actually work B) Operation - risk of anaesthetic, brutal procedure, followed by steroid injection - doesn't hurt as much, usually resolves the problem, eventually C) Do nothing - 90% of all frozen shoulders get better in about 18 months. Recommendation - "I can do the injections but why would you bother, I can do the operation, but I recommend, do nothing, get better naturally, if it doesnt, come back & see me". So I did nothing, and 15 months on, I have nearly no pain, and most of my movement back. that kind of explanation works for me - and obviously every case varies - but I'd definitely listen to the (wo)man with the knife! good luck Simon Edited June 19, 2015 by Simond Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffP Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 Mine in my neck was the opposite. After enduring eight weeks of awful pain from 30th Dec 2008 to mid March, it was down to manageable levels, only to recur in early May. I'd tried doctor, chiro etc, spent hours lying in bed in one position, the one that hurt least, trying not to cry with the pain, watching the clock for the time I could take my next meds, and one evening, clawing at my arm in such pain that it bled for ages afterwards, covering me and the bedding....I didn't know I'd done it, couldn't feel it, but the pain in the arm was unbearable. FINALLY got sent to a specialist in Hull, he organised a very quick MRI, sent for me very quickly and explained that the disc was not only pressing on the brachial nerve, but on the spinal cord...he warned me that I HAD to have an op, or could roll over in bed one night and wake as a quadraplegic.......now THAT'S frightening, trust me. Had the op and, touching wood, been ok since. THEN I got the first cousin of sciatica..down the FRONT of my leg, not the rear. That was the one they kept putting me off, I didn't make enough fuss. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simond Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 Jeff Sorry to hear your tale of woe - like I said earlier, I'm one of the lucky ones. Not being able to feel your leg (arm, whatever) is rather scary - been there done that, very unpleasant. Strangely, if I touched my leg, nothing. If I stoked the hairs on my leg, I could feel it. Different nerves. And the morphine - didn't work for me, at all... asked for a higher dose, was told that the risk of addiction was too high... Didn't go there, happily. Fingers crossed Simon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffP Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 (edited) I was happy and pain-free with Co-Proxamol. Sadly, the Labour government saw fit to remove it from use, replacing it with...paracetamol, despite pleas from thousands of patients, doctors and consultants, THEY knew best. The chap who was mainly responsible, and very pleased with himself, was...one Andy Burnham...might be next Labour leader. Edited June 20, 2015 by JeffP Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simond Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 I might be mistaken, but I think, in conjunction with alcohol, it's mega dangerous Seems I'm not... https://www.networks.nhs.uk/nhs-networks/nhs-cumbria-ccg/medicines-management/advice-to-prescribers/Co-proxamol.pdf/at_download/file Best Simon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffP Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 Only if you overdose, apparently. And my morphine isn't exactly good with alcohol, plus I'm now hooked and can sleep for England...what a waste of the last years of my life...cheers Andy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
3 link Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 Is this " 7mm Modelling " or the Lancet ? . Martyn. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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