Spinal osteomylitis

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Posted by mandy on December 14, 2000 at 22:30:22:

In Reply to: Re: Back Surgery, Staph, and Osteomylitis posted by Brenda on January 15, 2000 at 16:01:08:

My story is a little different. In Jan. 1998, I went to my obgyn for a follow up on a bad pap smear. I noticed a week or so I started feeling really weird. I Could'nt really tell where the pain was coming from. All I could say is that my back was a little sore and my pelvic area was not feeling right. I also had about 101 temp. I went to the ER and they kept me there for a few days due to an infection, that I assume I developed from the biopsy that I had of my cervex. I left the hospital feeling great. About 2 days after that I started feeling sick all over again, which was strange considering all of the oral antibotics that I was taking. To make this strory much shorter. This lasted about 6 months. In and out over every hospital and doctors office you could imagine. I begin to think that I was going insane. Feeling great one minute and having 103 temp and feeling horrible the next. Then it happened, all of the sudden I knew that this was no mind game. I could not move the pain had progressed so much. My husband demaned that I have a bone scan. Finally they saw something. After spinal taps and MRI's and over a 2 week stay in the hospital they finally dignosed me with (osteomyliti) staph infection T10 and T11. After a long battle with IV antibotics I was finally cured. I still have MRI's ran about every 6 months to make sure everything is OK. But I'm 25 weeks pregnant now and I'm feeling something a little "weird" going on in my back. I can't have any type of X-ray ran since I'm pregnant. I'm a little scared. I know since the osteomysitis took too long to diagnose that I do have alot of scaring on my spine. I guess what I 'm wondering is, Is this something that will come back or not? All of my doctors say not to worry, but after reviewing what other people have been through, more than likely it will come back to haunt me. I'm only 23 years old with a baby boy on the way and I don't want to have to worry about this my whole life.

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: My story is a little different. In Jan. 1998, I went to my obgyn for a follow up on a bad pap smear. I noticed a week or so I started feeling really weird. I Could'nt really tell where the pain was coming from. All I could say is that my back was a little sore and my pelvic area was not feeling right. I also had about 101 temp. I went to the ER and they kept me there for a few days due to an infection, that I assume I developed from the biopsy that I had of my cervex. I left the hospital feeling great. About 2 days after that I started feeling sick all over again, which was strange considering all of the oral antibotics that I was taking. To make this strory much shorter. This lasted about 6 months. In and out over every hospital and doctors office you could imagine. I begin to think that I was going insane. Feeling great one minute and having 103 temp and feeling horrible the next. Then it happened, all of the sudden I knew that this was no mind game. I could not move the pain had progressed so much. My husband demaned that I have a bone scan. Finally they saw something. After spinal taps and MRI's and over a 2 week stay in the hospital they finally dignosed me with (osteomyliti) staph infection T10 and T11. After a long battle with IV antibotics I was finally cured. I still have MRI's ran about every 6 months to make sure everything is OK. But I'm 25 weeks pregnant now and I'm feeling something a little "weird" going on in my back. I can't have any type of X-ray ran since I'm pregnant. I'm a little scared. I know since the osteomysitis took too long to diagnose that I do have alot of scaring on my spine. I guess what I 'm wondering is, Is this something that will come back or not? All of my doctors say not to worry, but after reviewing what other people have been through, more than likely it will come back to haunt me. I'm only 23 years old with a baby boy on the way and I don't want to have to worry about this my whole life.