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Join Date: May 2013
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Posts: 135
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I can relate...
I recently ended an eight year friendship over my illness. I was expected to listen to all my friend's gripes and problems (she is perfectly healthy, not to mention ungrateful.) When I needed to bend her ear--usually it was about my health in some fashion, her eyes would glaze over or she would quickly end the phone call.
I do realize that people can tire over listening to chronic health concerns that they cannot understand. I thought I was tempering it as well as I could. But in the end, I think it's fair to expect support and empathy from those relationships as long as we provide the same back.
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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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