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Join Date: Jan 2009
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Originally Posted by The Bad Cormorant
In 2008 I ruptured the L4-L5 disc, the wording on the MRI results went something like "the disc is contacting and displacing the L4 nerve root" The pain I had was astonishing couldn't even get to my feet for a month, another 5 months before mostly pain free, and another 18 months to be back to normal (2 years in total) . A further three years with what I would describe as a fairly healthy trouble free back, then I managed to rupture another disc LS-L5. On the MRI for this they also commented on the condition of L4-L5 where they described it as "contacting but not displacing the nerve as markedly as in 2008".
So after 5 years and what I had considered a complete recovery, the disc is very much in the same condition as it was when I was in total agony; All very disappointing, I had guessed it had returned to normal - I wonder if the nerve just gets used to the contact ?
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Your relatively unchanged MRI findings down the road from your initial problems when you had a period of no issues only to be tailed by an exacerbation of your problems are probably the rule and not the exception. Countless cases are documented where complaints are horrific at the beginning and meager later on with no change in initial vs. interim MRI findings. As I have related countless times, MRI findings are only supportive of complaints and clinical findings. They mean little by themselves, at times, otherwise!
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