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Suggest Treatment For Chronic Back Pain
I have chronic back pain.two Herrington rods for scoliosis and a th rod holding five vertebrates together. My whole spine is fused except for the two upper and two lower. On top of that I have three herniated discs and my sciatic nerve is being pinched . My pain doc thinks it s being pinched on both sides because both of my legs feel really bruised and they also feel like like little giggles of electricity going through them. So I think I need something done. Especially since doctor took me off one of my pain meds
Fri, 11 Oct 2019
Hello,
It's not shock. Shock is defined as a state of acute energy failure due to inadequate glucose substrate delivery, oxygen delivery, or mitochondrial failure at the cellular level.
The clinical state of shock is diagnosed on the basis of vital signs, physical examination, and laboratory data.
Shock is clinically detected as a state with low BP cold extremities, reduced skin turgor and many other clinical manifestations. Shock is broadly divided in to the following types owing to causation:
-Hypovolemic shock (due to fluid or blood loss)
-Septic shock (infection)
-Cardiogenic shock (due to heart dysfunction)
-Obstructive shock (due to blockage in blood supply) now coming to your specific situation.
What you had is medically termed as Rigor or in simple English "shivering".
It's body's way of response to cold to increase the core temperature. Your exposure to cold and further aloevera which also lead to heat loss and hence, in response you felt chills and had rigor.
Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.
Take care
Regards,
Dr Kalpajit Banik, Emergency Medicine Specialist
It's not shock. Shock is defined as a state of acute energy failure due to inadequate glucose substrate delivery, oxygen delivery, or mitochondrial failure at the cellular level.
The clinical state of shock is diagnosed on the basis of vital signs, physical examination, and laboratory data.
Shock is clinically detected as a state with low BP cold extremities, reduced skin turgor and many other clinical manifestations. Shock is broadly divided in to the following types owing to causation:
-Hypovolemic shock (due to fluid or blood loss)
-Septic shock (infection)
-Cardiogenic shock (due to heart dysfunction)
-Obstructive shock (due to blockage in blood supply) now coming to your specific situation.
What you had is medically termed as Rigor or in simple English "shivering".
It's body's way of response to cold to increase the core temperature. Your exposure to cold and further aloevera which also lead to heat loss and hence, in response you felt chills and had rigor.
Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.
Take care
Regards,
Dr Kalpajit Banik, Emergency Medicine Specialist
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