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Originally Posted by CZZ74
Broken wings you were the only one who helped me before so here goes. Hope you can help again or some one esle knows.
Doctor said this was not good , that it was one of the worst he has seen. Also has referred me to neurosurgeon, but has cautioned doesnt know if they can help me as there are so many and my RSD complicates things. My report says
Cervical spine
There is congentiall narrowing of the spinal canal on the basis of short pedicles.
There is a hemangioma wiiith in the C4 vertebral body
C4-c5 bilateral facet hypertrophy-there is neural enchroachment
disk bulging a C-5 and C-6 bilateral facet hypertrophy severe left nerual lforaminal stenosis. right neural foraminal stenosis as well.
C-6-C-7Disk herniation and abnormal signal involving herniated portioon of this disk. There is a associated radial tear a C6-C7/
Thoracic Spine(here comes the bad part) - Disk bulging T5 and T6
- Disk bulging
T6and T7T7and T8 Disk buldging and midline posterior disk herniation .abnormall signal involving the hernarited portion of disk and a radial tear. Tthere is an exiting nerve rooot impingement at this level.Disk Buldging at T9 and T10 There is asymmetric right facet hyyypertrophy ath this level. there is right neural foraminal stenosis.At T-11 -T12 ther is disk bulging and midline left disk herniation and axial image . there is impingement upon the ventral thecal sac.
My spine pain is very severe. I am able to stand onlly aobut 20 mins at a time.. has anyone else had this much damage. I have not been in an accident execpt for my RSD accident, which my lef went into a sprinkler well and i fell flat on my face full out.???? help please?CZ |
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Okay. just my thoughts... not a doctor
"There is congenital narrowing of the spinal canal on the basis of short pedicles."
Narrowing of any kind can cause pain and/or problems. Not necessarily anything wrong here, though. just noted as a finding that deviates from the normal-radiologist knows it's congenital. "Congenital-existing at or dating from birth/developed in uterus. congenital not the same as hereditary.
Short pedicles-located on the vertebra - you can google with images "short pedicles" till you find them and understand what part of the vetebral bone it is.
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"There is a hemangioma wiiith in the C4 vertebral body"
how big is it? not much wiggle room in the vertebral body.
hemangioma-benign tumor made up of blood vessels. Again, not necessarily anything wrong. just noted as a finding-radiologist knows it's benign. hemangiomas can be from birth too. not usually a surgical condition. Just the way some people are put together. I don't think science knows why they develop but they know it's benign.
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"C4-c5 bilateral facet hypertrophy"
hypertrophy - I understand it to be an arthritic or a degenerating/aging condition. that's why I asked your age. Some people get rapid degeneration after an injury. what was your fall date? what was the date of this MRI? if it's soon after fall, then hypertropy was most probably pre-existing-before injury event. It may not've bothered you(dormant condition) but you could've had it. the injury may have brought it into reality(started hurting).
C4-C5 bilateral-means both sides of the vetebrae
facet - joints that join the vertebrae one to another. so facet hypertrophy=degeneration/arthritis of the facet joint, bilaterally(both sides) of the vetebrae.
facet joints and short pedicles are not the same either. close...
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will work on some more tomorrow night.
