T12 disc prolapse
 

Hi
Im new to this site..and could do with advice. Last summer ,after lifting too much,I suffered thoracic pain and a right weak leg.MRI scan show T11-T12 prolapse. I have tried everything from aids to alternative treatments,physio,chyropractice and traditional pain killers. One year on and I am now struggling to walk as the right leg is very weak and jerky. I have perineal numbness and continual pins and needles and burning in the right leg and around the right rib cage. I have bladder control but constant sense of needing to go and my bowels are no longer functioning without continual medication.I have to use a wheel chair to get around as exercise now makes my leg more jerky and harder to control. A new MRI scan showed that the T12 prolapse has slipped slightlyand is calcified but the T11 is reduced. I have seen 2 neurosurgeons,one says there is no problem .Another wants to operate to relieve possible nerve pressure. Why are the opinions so different? Has anyone else suffered this? Can anyone advise me?

((((((((((Jane)))))))))

Welcome to our Forum, I hope someone will come by soon with some answers for you.

You may also try posting over on the Spiney Forum. many knowledgeable people there.

I had some similar issues with my rt leg early this year - but it was not Thoracic related. I sneezed and threw my lower back out. It took about 2 months for my leg to stop flopping about when I walked.

Good luck, I hope you get some answers and some relief soon!
Anne

Thanks Anne
appreciate your quick reply..will try above forum

hi does not sound like tos which is generally a upper torso event, the thoracic outlet being in the shoulder area and a highway for the nerve and vascular bundles from the neck et al to the arms and on down,