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Old 09-22-2014, 12:20 AM #1
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Question If you saw these MRI results would you worry

Hi,

Ive been lurking this site since my last spinal fusion, what spurred my registration is this report. Now I'm no stranger to this stuff but both previous MRI reports were unremarkable for anything but the one area they fused. This MRI report is 2 pages long so I'm spooked and have been worrying since I peeked at them.

Ill summarize:

Findings - Post-op change/Modic type II at L5-S1 (first surgical site)
Posteriolisthesis at L4-L5 (most recent surgical site)

Axial Imaging Shows:

L1-2 - Broad Based Disk Bulge with central spinal stenosis + bilateral
foraminal stenosis without lateral recess stenosis

L2-3 - Same as above

L3-4 - Broad based disk bulge, degenerative facet disease and ligamentum
flavum redundancy, moderate central spinal stenosis mild bilateral
foraminal stenosis

L4-5 - Broad based disk bulge, mild central spinal stenosis, bilateral foraminal
stenosis that's worse on the right side

L5-S1 - Broad based disc bulge, mild central spinal stenosis, lateral
components of the disk bilaterally displace L5 nerve roots bilaterally


Ive been pain for 2 years while my doctors told me it was everything from
an ulcer to random nerve pain that I just have to live with. I've done 3 rounds of 3 steroid injections with no lasting relief.

Then I started falling when I got up from sitting because my kneecaps and groin area would go numb but I couldn't tell so when I tried to get up I just ate floor.

Like I said, Ive had two fusions but I was healthy/unremarkable disk-wise on all the other vertebrae So its jarring to see all this stuff.

Any insight would be helpful, I'm a real panicky Pete this go round for some reason. Thanks
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