A woman who had endured excruciating back pain since giving birth 14 years earlier had a fragment of an epidural needle found buried in her spine.

At a hospital in Jacksonville, Florida, Amy Bright, 41, underwent a c-section in 2003 to give birth to Jacob, her sixth and youngest son.

Her first episode of severe back pain, which has plagued her life ever since occurred just two months later.

After a CT scan last year discovered a 3 cm-long bit of needle buried in her spine, she was finally able to identify the root of her problem.

She expressed her astonishment, indignation, and horror at the news.

During her epidural for Jacob’s delivery more than ten years prior, the needle supposedly snapped off.

Amy suffered severe nerve damage, and as a result, her left foot and leg only function partially.

She said, “That needle moved inside my spine,” every time she moved, walked, bent, twisted, or dozed.

Since I’ve been moving this needle, my spine’s scar tissue has been growing for fourteen years.

She has seen many doctors over the years, and each one has prescribed her painkillers, muscle relaxants, and other drugs to help her manage her torment.

“It feels like a burning poker right next to my tailbone.” She told WRAL that it occasionally flows into her foot and down the left side of her calf.

The area adjacent to my tailbone feels hot and sharp like a poker. Sometimes it shoots down the left side of my calf and into my left foot, Bright claimed.

A three-centimeter epidural needle with damage was seen during a recent CT scan of her spine.

Bright and her lawyer, Sean Cronin, sued the federal government, claiming that the needle had irreversibly harmed Bright’s nerves.

Her medical records show that at Naval Hospital Jacksonville in September 2003, an unsuccessful effort was made to introduce a spinal needle. Because of this, no one else, according to Cronin, injected a needle into her back.

The mother is suing Florida’s Naval Hospital, the place where she gave birth. She alleges that even though staff members knew the faulty needle could have been fixed, they did nothing and allowed the harm to occur.

The doctor warned that if the needle was not withdrawn immediately, Amy would suffer from irreparable paralysis.

For the remainder of her life, she will require medication and physical therapy to manage the wounds.

It has gotten to the point where it just keeps burning. The future worries me a lot. “[My leg] is getting weaker,” she said.

I’m going to be in a wheelchair most certainly. I’m terrified because of my uncertainty.

You said, “I don’t know what the future holds.” I’m nervous and extremely terrified.