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Old 01-30-2012, 07:15 AM
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Default In a word--

--yes.

Compressive nerve issues can give rise to a whole host of unusual sensory experiences, not just pain. It often depends on exactly what nerve pathway is being impinged. The larger nerves are like bundles of those old copper telephone cables with the sensory pathways tending to be more along the periphery and the motor pathways closer to the center of the "cable", and depending on where the pressure is, one can get many different types of "parastheses" (abnormal sensory sensations)--tingling, electrical jolts, shoots, numbness, feelings of something touching that isn't there, weird temperature sensations . . .

How long ago were the MRI's? Things do change over time . . .and, given what you are mentioning about bending over, they might want to continue the imaging down to the sacral spine. Too many doctors think the sacral bone doesn't move or get displaced, so they tend to cut off the image at the last disc level, the S1, but one can get impingment at the S2/3/4 levels and these do contribute to nerves of the legs and genital area through the lumbosacral nerve plexus.
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