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If you look up ARAC support group, ASAMS, AASQA, COFWA (Circle of Friends with Arachnoiditis), Arachnoiditis.co.uk, etc, you will find thousands of us with identical stories. We were told these procedures were routine and safe. We were told they were effective, and we all ended up with this incurable, untreatable, hell on earth. Our doctors responses? Often, we are labeled as malingerers, fakers, somatoforic (psychosomatic) cases. We are stigmatized, and labelled as whiners and drug seekers. It is not uncommon for arachniacs to receive harsh lectures as to how we 'caused our own pain, and are personally responsible for our condition' when it was the DOCTOR that CAUSED THIS!!!

THIS is the response of absolute cowards. Doctors who are irresponsible, cowardly, and afraid to own up to what they have created, by ordering myelo after myelo, 10, 20 of 30 epidurals for the same person. It only takes one botched or bad epidural to land a patient with arachnoiditis for life. IT TAKES A REAL COWARD TO PRESCRIBE THESE PROCEDURES, CAUSE THIS TRAUMATIC AN INJURY, AND THEN BLAME THE PATIENT, LABEL THEM AS UNSTABLE OR PSYCHOSOMATIC, TO COVER FOR THE PHYSICIANS' OWN MISCONDUCT, and poor judgement in the handling of the case..

I urge any doubter out there: Look up arachnoiditis in Google Books. You will be shocked as to the extraordinary amount of coverage in modern medical texts about this so called non- existent disease. It is one thing to lie, to deceive, and to profit off of patients illnesses. It is quite another matter to cause this much destruction, and shift the responsibility to the patient. In the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand. It happens. Anyone interested should look up these sites, these support groups, or the condition. And think twice before you have an epidural or myelogram.

The first thing modern medicine needs to do is FESS UP and atone for these transgressions. NEXT, they need to find diagnostic media, and new treatments which do not include neurotoxins which will damage or destroy nerve or spinal cord material. Finally, it needs to LEVEL with patients, and tell us the REAL truth for a change. Perhaps the information age will open up this can of worms and let some sunshine in. It is about time.

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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. He graduated from University of Tenn. He had 29 epidurals, and plenty of (more...)

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