Just got back from the ER

And I'm so annoyed! I have had severe lower back pain since last Saturday that is radiating down into my legs. I am also getting cold flashes come over my legs once in a while. I can't sit for very long because it hurts like he!! and when I get up, it hurts horribly. The pain is only dulled by laying down. I chalked it up to my spinal fusion I had 7 years ago, but the pain has gotten worse and today I could walk at all without DH helping me.

He made me go to the ER. We decided to go to Winthrop because the head Ortho Surgeon there did his fellowship with my surgeon who's out of Manhattan and I had an appointment to see him on the 29th anyway. Doctor's out here look at my back Xrays and tell me they have no clue what they're looking at and I have to see my surgeon, so I figured maybe this guy would know it well since he worked with my surgeon.

Well, I never got to see him. I spent almost 6 hours in the ER for a doc to give me Percocet and some anti-inflammatory shot. He said my x-rays looked fine. I asked if it could be a nerve (because that's what everyone says it sounds like) and he said it could be, but they couldn't order the MRI there because they can only do that for patients having surgery that day. I have to go to the other doc, have him order the MRI, get it done, and then go back to him for the results and treatment plan. To top it off, I told everyone I spoke to there that I needed to lay down because the painw as horrible and only getting worse as I sat there. Yeah, no. They let me sit there, crying in pain, while taking patients before me that came into the ER AFTER me. And they weren't in serious condition. One women hurt her pinky!

I'm so annoyed. I wanted answers. I can now walk on my own, but it still hurts when I sit. The pain is still going into my legs. The Percocet did nothing, but that's what he sent me home with. The shot is what's helping me walk. Sorry, just needed to vent.