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Anyone with PN have a recommendation
for surgury???
I am so confused! My EMG/NCS states sensorimotor axonal damage. My lumbar MRI shows sponylosis/spondylithesis with pars defect, conjoined nerve root at L5-S1 with probable compression on left side (where I have symptoms at left foot & leg.)
I have seen one neurologist who poo-pooed the MRI, barely looked at it really. My husband asked me to have a neurosurgeon look at it. He thinks I should consider a PLIF (fusion at L5-S1) He thinks things look pretty messed up down there, and the left sided nature of things suggests some mechanical problems.. My regular neuro said, "of course, a surgeon would want to cut." This guy, though, is the best in the area, doesn't need to drum up business in any way. I actually went to the appt thinking he would say there was nothing surgical to be done.
I am getting an opinion of another neurologist in August. If I did the surgery it would be in Sept. I really really need some input!
Thanks!
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Idiopathic Sensorimotor Polyneuropathy
Atypical Migraine
Chiari 1 malformation 7 mm
PLIF L5-S1 Sept. 2013
Lumbar MRI March 2013: degenerative changes from L3 to S1. L3 and L4 have tiny annular tears with disc bulge. L5-S1 bilateral pars defects anterolisthesis (spondylosis/spondylithesis?) I have an annular tear here too, along with a conjoined left L5-S1 nerve root. Mild effacement of the thecal sac at the origins of the bilateral S1 nerve roots, left greater than right. Mild bilateral Neural foraminal stenosis.
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