Lumbopelvic difficulties
by Karen
After many searches I came across your site, I have been suffering for 5 years now and have yet to find any help or even had a Dr give me any information or advice on how to manage my problems, it started 5 years ago, though I suspect the problem stems from many years previously at the age of 12 I fell from a height onto my lower spine, my mother was told that I should have total bedrest for a couple of weeks for a dislocated coccyx. I had lots of health problems after this, including upper respiratory problems, which have never been resolved. Then 5 years ago in a fall from a window, I fractured my T12 vertebrae, it was an unstable fracture, and I was told that I had a congenital failure of segmentation of the lumbosacral junction, which the T12 L1 junction had been compensating for, which is why the T12 fractured in the fall. After fusion reduction for the T12 fracture, I have since been left struggling with many problems, pain in the upper back and lower joints, unable to move more than a few steps in the house and even then just shuffling along as best I can, with extreme pain that seems to radiate from the centre of my body, both up my spine to the upper back and shoulders, and down into my legs, knees and ankles. My ankles and feet swell up on a daily basis from just trying to move about the house, with severe swelling and pain that resembles a sprained ankle but in both feet at the same time (see attached Pics). Any information or advice you can offer would be greatly appreciated, even if it were to just better enable me to describe the problems to my own Dr, who when he asks where the pain is, and I try to say it seems to be all over and moves depending on what I'm doing, describing what I have above, he just prescribes anti inflammatories without even examining me to assess the problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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