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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Michigan
Posts: 1,424
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Michigan
Posts: 1,424
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Hi ~ Bless your heart. I'm so sorry to hear of your pain. I know how it is as I've been fighting this for 24 years.
You've got several bulges and no herniations, plus some bone spurs, but what I don't like is the flattening of the spinal cord! These must be HUGE bulges to come in contact with the cord without herniating! No wonder you're in such pain. If I'm not mistaken, the foramen is an opening where spinal nerves come out. That's narrowed.
Plus you have SCIATICA and you can't move your toes????? Good grief!!! Have you seen a Neurosurgeon?? I certainly hope so, but if not please have your doc refer you to one ASAP. I surely do NOT advocate surgery as a cure for pain because it does NOT work all the time, but you have some mechanical problems that may cause permanent damage.
Best of luck, and please let us know how you come out, ok? God bless. Peace, Lee
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recovering alcoholic, sober since 7-29-93;severe depression; 2 open spinal surgeries; severe sciatica since 1986; epidurals; trigger points; myelograms; Rhizotomy; Racz procedure; spinal cord stimulator implant (and later removal); morphine pump trial (didn't work);now inoperable; lumpectomy; radiation; breast cancer survivor; heart attack; fibromyalgia; on disability.
Often the test of courage is not to die, but to live..
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