L5-S1 herniation neurogenic bladder not Cauda Equina

phugoi1982, not meaning to derail our present thread, but I wanted to tell you how to “work-around” the problem of not being able to insert an image in Private Messages. Here’s what you do:
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Welcome. I’d suffered the same frustration.

I got a model of a spine and figured out which of my bones was removed when I had surgery (one of the doctor's letters said "extended foraminotomy" another called the procedure "hemilaminectomy"). It didn't take long for me to see what was going on in there.

tetra ,

Thanks for posting that! It made me furious reading because I've been going through the same thing for 15 years. My family labelling me a hypohchondriac as well as doctors and insisting my symptoms were a "manifestation of my inability to succeed in life". Fortunately, I never got to the point where I doubted myself totally although I came close. The more I fought with doctors and argued they tried to force me to take psychiatric drugs and when I told one he was a quack he nearly had me committed. I've been threatened with psychiatric hospitalization so by my family and doctors so many times. The worst thing is now, my mom believes me but just tells me not to talk about it and move on with life. I always argue, this wasn't some act of "God" or some disease like MS that you just get. What happened to me was systematic abuse and neglect from the medical community and I told her I'm not going to give them a convenient out of escaping blame for what they did to me just to make you or anyone else comfortable.

I can forgive the doctors who missed my problem even though they tried because at least they took me seriously. But the rest of the doctors who smirked at me, laughed and called my hypochondriac and denied me real care....not going to lie, I have fantasized about harming them (Not going to do it, but it makes me mad). I just keep counting on getting the right diagnosis and then nailing them with litigation.