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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Michigan
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Michigan
Posts: 1,424
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I'll try to help:
C3-4 ~ You have some overgrowth of bone that causes mild left-sided neural foraminal narrowing. The foramen is the hole that the nerves travel thru while going to the spinal cord.
C6-7 ~ Annular tear with disc protrusion indenting the thecal sac. (the thecal sac is a membrane of dura matter that surrounds the spinal cord & the cauda equina. The thecal sac is filled with cerebral spinal fluid) There is bone overgrowth causing mild to moderate right sided and mild left sided foraminal narrowing.
I'm NO DOCTOR - but at this point I don't see a surgeon doing surgery. I might be dead wrong -- so a surgeon's opinion would be advised. But I just don't see where it's necessary.
I hope I answered your questions. Hugs, 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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