Thank you Mike. I'm glad your pain is gone and I hope your PN is manageable. My symptoms like many others are not completely straight forward which makes it difficult as I'm sure you understand. It helps me to hear about surgery benefits as I am very nervous about this
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Originally Posted by MikeK
My neurosurgeon at first must have thought I was nuts, my pain was more pronounced in my right leg, while the MRI showed more pain should be occurring in my left leg. The EMG showed PN and nerve pain from my back. It was the myelogram that gave the surgeon the answer why why right leg had more pain. I had L3-4-5 fused last summer.
He told me a couple interesting things:
1. My MRI was really like most men my age (60), many people with worse looking MRI's don't have pain. It all depends what nerves a compressed, pinched etc
2. Most people he does the procedure on the pain in their feet is gone in 12 months. Going in I knew that the chances of that being my case were slim, due to how my PN occurred (see signature line). The good news for me is my back pain is gone and the PN lives on.
Hopefully when your doctor reviews your results he can find something that can provides you relief.
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