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    The document discusses arachnoiditis, a condition where the arachnoid membrane around the spinal cord and brain becomes inflamed. It warns that thousands may be misdiagnosed or have undiagnosed arachnoiditis. The symptoms can range from mild to severe and include numbness, tingling, dizziness, back and leg pain, and headache. Common causes include spinal surgery, epidural steroid injections, lumbar punctures, trauma, and myelographic dyes. The condition is difficult to diagnose and prognosis varies case by case.

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    The document discusses arachnoiditis, a condition where the arachnoid membrane around the spinal cord and brain becomes inflamed. It warns that thousands may be misdiagnosed or have undiagnosed arachnoiditis. The symptoms can range from mild to severe and include numbness, tingling, dizziness, back and leg pain, and headache. Common causes include spinal surgery, epidural steroid injections, lumbar punctures, trauma, and myelographic dyes. The condition is difficult to diagnose and prognosis varies case by case.

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    Pain Theaword

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    The document discusses arachnoiditis, a condition where the arachnoid membrane around the spinal cord and brain becomes inflamed. It warns that thousands may be misdiagnosed or have undiagnosed arachnoiditis. The symptoms can range from mild to severe and include numbness, tingling, dizziness, back and leg pain, and headache. Common causes include spinal surgery, epidural steroid injections, lumbar punctures, trauma, and myelographic dyes. The condition is difficult to diagnose and prognosis varies case by case.

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    facebook/ Life with Arachnoiditis -

    1,000s and 1,000s could be


    misdiagnosed 1,000s and 1,000s have been confirmed!

    Could you be next?


    Numbness
    Tingling
    Dizziness

    What are you not being told about risk and your health!

    Needless & Razors in your skin

    Since Arachnoiditis can be linked to having a medical procedure, some physicians may be hesitant to diagnose. the disease. does not follow a Arachnoiditis predictable pattern, making it hard to obtaining an accurate prognosis a challenge.

    Mild to

    Severe

    Walking on glass

    Back Leg & Pain

    Causes of Arachnoiditis
    Infection e.g. Meningitis

    Headache
    Weakness and more !
    The individual dominoes represent different aspects of the syndrome, such as musculoskeletal problems, autonomic effects etc., which arise secondary to the Arachnoiditis disease process . The syndrome, however, arising mostly due to secondary effects, may tend to be progressive over time, but this does NOT necessarily reflect a progression of the arachnoiditis disease process itself.

    Spinal Surgery Epidural Steroid Injection


    Multiple Lumbar Punctures Trauma (to the spine) Spinal Stenosis (congenital/degenerative) Chronic Disc Prolapse Degenerative Disc Disease Myelographic Dyes (Especially Oil Based such as Myodil(pantopaque)) Subarachnoid Heamorrhage (&More)

    Arachnoiditis
    Warning
    Public Advisory!!

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