Hi Jen,

IME, doctors don't get terribly excited about "marginal", "mild", "minimal", and/or "moderate", or bulging discs in and of themselves. "Significant" may be another matter, depending on what/where it is and the doctor. If it were me, I'd start looking there, and at the lordosis because it "was not evident previously."

If you're not already, you might familiarize yourself with dermatomes, and see if you can find any correlation between your symptoms and the MRI report—particularly "on the left at c4-5 and on the right at c5-6" (N.B. There is a slight variance between the designations of discs and dermatomes.)

If no correlation can be found, then you might consider the possibility of a different cause or causes. There are many possible causes of neuropathy-like symptoms. Were any lab tests done, and if so which ones and the results?

I see you've posted to the Lyme Disease forum (and here I was wondering what you meant by LD... ), though I'm a bit strapped at the moment and haven't had time to peruse those discussions. You might also ask on the Peripheral Neuropathy forum, as there are folks there with broad experience.

Doc