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I would get a 2nd neurosurgeon opinion, but I agree that successive diskectomies lose effectiveness. Since it's at L5-S1 and your body is trying to fuse, why wouldn't they consider a one-level fusion? You lose very little mobility with a fusion that low, and motor nerve involvement is nothing to fool around with. Good luck!
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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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