If the name arachnoiditis makes you imagine “land of the spiders,” that’s no coincidence: the nerve network that the immune system begins to demyelinate looks something like a spider web’s intricate fibers spanning out from the lower spinal cord. ❋ Donna Jackson Nakazawa (2008)
Known as arachnoiditis, this devastating autoimmune disorder can lead to paralysis in the legs and turn life threatening as it attacks nerves throughout the lower organs of the body, even shutting down the bladder and bowels. ❋ Donna Jackson Nakazawa (2008)
What follows is a short list of foods: For more information, especially on how special diets may help in arachnoiditis, see Arachnoiditis: The Silent Epidemic, by J. ❋ Donna Jackson Nakazawa (2008)
I was diagnosed with MS back in the mid-'90s and also a condition called adhesive arachnoiditis. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The surgery had triggered arachnoiditis, a disease causing inflammation of all the spinal nerves. ❋ Melody Beattie (2010)
According to published statistics, 16% of spine patients end up with arachnoiditis. ❋ Unknown (2006)
I have adhesive arachnoiditis, a spinal cord injury that 'does not exist', that is too rare to happen, nothing is known about it, 'is too controversial to diagnose' and any of a half dozen other inaccurate descriptions. ❋ Unknown (2006)
YWV was a creditor represenatative in US Federal Bankruptcy Court, a litigation manager and credit manager, before succumbing to arachnoiditis and failed back surgery syndrome. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Spine patients are given diagnostics such as myelogramCTs, which carry a risk of arachnoiditis. ❋ Unknown (2006)
There is no cure for arachnoiditis and treatment options are limited to pain relief similar to treatments for other chronic pain conditions. ❋ Unknown (2006)
However, if you go to any doctors office, especially radiologists and anesthesiologists who do these procedures, and ask them about arachnoiditis, it does not exist, is an urban myth. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The inflammation sometimes leads to the formation of scar tissue and adhesions, which cause the spinal nerves to "stick" together at which point arachnoiditis begins to interfere with the function of the nerves, causing symptoms such as numbness, tingling, and a characteristic stinging and burning pain in the lower back or legs, according to Dr Filice. ❋ Unknown (2006)
However, he now is forced to live with arachnoiditis caused by epidural steroid injections (ESIs). ❋ Unknown (2006)
The only possible way Dennis could have contracted arachnoiditis is through the improper ESI because had no back problems. ❋ Unknown (2006)
One can go to Google Books, look up arachnoiditis, and find hundreds, and hundreds of medical texts describing and defining arachnoiditis. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Epidural steroids using the current steroid media, depo medrol, kenalog, celestone soluspan, all known neurotoxins, also have preservatives that also can give arachnoiditis. ❋ Unknown (2006)
