re: Chronic pain, how do you deal with it?

Eat healthy, physical therapy. Ibuprofen, sometimes. I have disc protrusions on my neck and lumbar area. It's been tough, but I try to stay positive. The future scares me very much.

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If you live in a kratom legal state, many people have found it can really help, start out with a bottle of the vivazen or similiar brands. If that helps you can order the powder and make it into kratom tea much cheaper.

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And hope that you aren’t one of the unlucky ones who experience permanent psychosis from kratom.

You need to see a neurosurgeon. There are several types of surgeries available. An MRI will go a long way to determining which surgery you need. If it's a ruptured disc, a MLD surgery may solve your problem The disc is swollen and pressing on nerves, they remove some of the damaged disc, in order for the swelling to go down which relieves pressure and pain. The second surgery is to remove the cartilage disc entirely, and they place spacers between the vertebrae. Another surgery is a spinal fusion. Using hardware composed of rods, plates, and screws then again place spacers in place of the disc. The fusion keeps the area from collapsing, and shifting.
If one has a vertebra body fracture and it's collapsing, then again spinal fusion is the surgery needed.

The only way to determine the best surgery to repair your injury is by way of an MRI, and CT. The longer you wait the more permanent the damage that may occur to the nerve endings, and you may still have some pain even after surgery. Some neurosurgeons even implant an electrical stimulus device to help override the pain. Again see a neurosurgeon, not some orthopedic doctor that does back surgery. The spinal nerves are nothing to play with, and paralysis is always a possibility. If you don't have health insurance, then look into being referred to one of the hospitals that has a contract with the state to provide care to those uninsured. OLOL and LSU Shreveport come to mind. Good luck.

Nerve blocks

CBD is snake oil by itself. Need the entire flower for synergy. It is like Tylenol 3 which can be good for something like the flu... There is 2 substances in it which is weird but one helps more with pain and another for inflammation and fever.