My name is Alison, and this is my story about overcoming piriformis syndrome. Nobody could diagnose me for a while and I started on opiate pain medicine. Within six months I was an addict. My husband was deployed. I had no coping mechanisms. I was trying to function as a parent in pain, a single parent in pain with a deployed husband and two small children.
I was diverting from the hospitals I was working at for my own use. I mean, the problem had gotten really bad and I was still in pain. The pain was so real and so excruciating. I’d have spasms go down my legs. I walked like I was nine months pregnant. My hips hurt so bad.
Hear about this doctor within 60 seconds of getting out of the car. I hear about Dr. Tollestrup. And I mean, if that wasn’t God doing for me what I could not do for myself, then I don’t know what it was. When he got to piriformis syndrome and he went through the symptoms I cried, because for the first time somebody really knew exactly how I felt. I felt immediately better. There was no more radiculopathy going down my legs, I could get up and walk. All of my coworkers said, “You’re like a new person.” It was so noticeable, everybody picked up on it. My patients at work were like, “Oh my God. You look so good. ”
I had the left piriformis removed yesterday and I feel great. I don’t have the bruising this time like I did last time because I had not had a release, but I feel like amazing. He saved my life. I would not have survived. I would have killed myself sooner rather than later, because I knew the path I was going down. He’s an amazing man, his compassion, his ethic. You just don’t see that anymore in a physician. There are no words that can express the amount of gratitude I have for Dr, Tollestrup.
About Dr. Tollestrup
Dr. Tollestrup currently runs his own clinic in Las Vegas, Nevada, focusing 100% of his practice on peripheral nerve surgery, which includes issues stemming from such conditions as diabetic neuropathy, compression neuropathies (carpal tunnel, cubital tunnel, tarsal tunnel, etc.) nerve trauma, chronic joint pain, chronic groin pain and migraines.
Contact Information
Website: https://nevadanervesurgery.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/timtollestrupmd/
Call: 702-505-8968
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