Anyone ever had or have an abdominal aorta aneurysm? [View all]
I have been having right hip/leg pain and numbness since mid-October. They thought it was a pinched sciatic nerve. I've been on Gabapentin since then. I started with 100mg. 3 times a day and am now taking 1800mg. a day. I don't think anything has improved. While I was in SE Asia, I took a variety of pain meds provided by my international traveling companions. Some were high dose and they kept me going. However, since I came home I was taking just Aleve. Anyway, after a visit with my PCP last Wednesday, she sent me to an orthopedic doctor. He ordered x-rays of my back.
He told me my spine and disks looked good for my age. But later, another doctor viewed the x-rays and found what he called an aneurysmal dilatation of the abdominal aorta. Being me, I started googling the condition and became alarmed. It's like a walking time bomb. He wants either an ultrasound or CT to get a better look at it and sent the info back to my PCP. I'm now waiting for that appointment.
What can anybody who's been through this tell me? Has anyone had the surgery to correct it? The open surgery sounds gruesome. The other, less invasive version, doesn't look as effective to me. I just would like to hear from you guys.
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