Paralyzed from Epidural Steroid Injection (Ep. 5 Spine Scams Exposed)

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[JoeyFerrisMusic]

I had an epidural injection 4 days ago. Most relief ive gotten in 4 years.

[docnoc]

As a responsible, Pain Management MD, I always look at the MRI prior to any injection to note any level of critical stenosis. It could be a medial branch or facet block to treat axial pain prior to you doing a multilevel fusion. It’s always important to rule out mechanically, mediate neck, pain rather than disc related neck pain. And yes, I would never inject Medrol into the cervical spine instead the better choice is dexamethasone preservative free, which is non-particulate

[soloesbp]

Wow thank you for this video. I had 5 of these injections in back and neck. I wish I new what I do now. They didn't help at all. It was all for the money from my car accident case. Great videos to inform people.

[BW]

I’ve had multiple epidural lumbar injections and radio frequency ablations. My pain management doctor is exceptional and I’ve had zero problems after my procedures. I’m doing this to manage the pain until I have a appointment with a local spine surgeon. I’ve not found a need to be scared of my pain doctor. He saw the MRIs I’ve had and configured a plan to fit my particular requirements.

[jimel]

I'm supposed to have a steroid spinal injection soon. This video has just helped me make the decision I had already been leaning towards. Thank you Dr.

[chefboyrv]

Proper diagnosis, triage, peer reviews, specialist surgeons, great facilities is the way to go. Do your homework folks, bad doctors can be killers. Two lumbar injections yesterday at UW health in Madison WI, great doctor and great facility.

[Seer-cwlu]

THANK YOU FOR YOUR COURAGE AND HONESTY

[bmj]

Omg, I needed to hear this. Thank you Doctor.

[veronicamaes]

My surgery 5 levels ! I feel Amaesing! Only 5 months out! I’m recommending his surgeries to everyone!

[DougVandegrift]

Thanks for admitting that there are bad doctors out there that are greedy and truly could care less about the welfare of the patient. I had lasik done without being properly being informed of all the downsides and potential complications. I had a bad outcome and the doctor just threw his hands up and said "It's all in your head, nothing more I can do." No refunds. Even the "safest" surgeries in our world today can have life changingly bad outcomes.

[AwakenUs-]

Thank you for your videos. I'm in the process of having multiple disc's repaired from a vehicle accident. I've already dealt with disc issues starting at 20 from commercial construction work.

[Suden]

You have shown me what happened to me. Thank you so much. I now have the answers which has been covered up by my surgical team all these years.

[shannonjennings]

Was suppose to get this done here in about 3 hours .so glad I found this video !

[Chiropractorfreehold]

great info doctor! I did a video about ESI 2 years ago warning about the risks. Sadly many pain management doctors push these right away and don't even inform about any of the risks

[FirstClass-]

There is a reason it’s not FDA approved! Well said sir!

[johnb]

Again great "life saving" information

[Chocolatechipcookiesyummy]

I had double spinal fusion sept 2013. The dr that did my procedure is the spine dr for the LSU football team. They let me lay in recovery for almost 2 hours and couldn’t control my pain. It wasn’t until I started coming to and felt a weird sensation in my feet and it moved up my body. I was paralyzed from neck down. I had a epidural hematoma blood clot from C-2 through C-7. I had emergency surgery. I fully recovered movement. I live in horrible pain. I was a captain in the fire dept. That’s how I initially got injured. At a fire. This surgeon who is a well known surgeon let that happen to me.
I do have an amazing pain management dr. He is so caring and sweet. I had a epidural in Feb. it made a huge difference. I have my next one this Friday. June 10. That is my story. I went from being a healthy person to disabled.

[joshgoodwin]

Your own website offers epidural steroid injection as an option for spine and radicular treatment. Also can you discuss the fact that there are greater than 10million epidural steroid injections performed each year in the US. SPinal cord injury related to ESI is a very serious but very rare complication. As you mentioned need to ensure safety of a treatment. Maybe highlight the complication rate of cervical spine decompression! Although it is the right choice for some, it comes with a significant risk of complications nerve injury, paralysis, and death compared to epidural injection.

[sydmil]

I wouldn't even have the epidural during childbirth. I'm a partial paraplegic. I couldn't fathom having a needle stuck in my back and then being even temporarily paralyzed.

I was always told that epidural can't cause paralysis. I'm on a spinal cord injury support group and know 2 people who have been paralyzed by epidural, one during childbirth and the other was getting epidural for pain management

[lh]

After breaking sedation during a discogram in tremendous pain and getting off the OR table with a needle still in my back years ago asking the doc what he hit me with due to the tremendous pain I lost my interest in “fixing my back”. The anesthesiologist was rumored to be a poor one so maybe the blame lies there? It was horrible absolutely horrible. The report read as advancing the needle into the L3-L4 the patient actually broke sedation and came off the table writhing in pain. Patient was comforted and gingerly helped back to the table. Dr’s need to understand a patients fear after an episode like that. I’m done being poked and prodded.