I saw this on the internet and I have been having SI problems and wanted to share stories with others that have the same problems. A lot of people who don't have these problems dont't understand the pain and frustration. Sharon

After a particularly painful recurrence of arm & shoulder pain since herniating a cervical disc 8+ years ago, I located a highly respected minimally invasive surgeon. He says I'm a candidate for a minimally invasive foraminotomy on my C6-C7 correlating with my symptoms. That was a few weeks ago. Now I'm scheduled for surgery (out of state) and my symptoms have eased significantly with the exception of some tingling and numbness. Trying to figure out if I should go thru with it or wait. This has been my off & on pattern. Symptoms return. I do everything but surgery and eventually get better.

What pain medication do you take for your problem? I have the same Dx. Pain meds have proven to be addictive yet a Godsend in giving me a pain free life that I feel everyone deserves. Aloha from Hawaii

Hi,

I originally joined NeuroTalk back in August and was trying to make contact with anyone who had recent spine surgery for spondylolisthesis (L5/S1) with
severe nerve compression in the L5 root. The L5 vertebrea got fractured at some point (I'm not sure how) and, over the years I've developed a grade II slippage that has begun to damage a nerve. It is painful, but it's not the pain I want to manage....it's the actual nerve damage. (I'm now trying decompression therapy with a chiropracter).
Anyway, my neurosurgeon says I am a candidate for spinal fusion of the L5/S1 vertebra. Supposedly, if successful, the outcome will be relief of the nerve pressure and hopefully allow my right leg to return to normal. I've got some muscle issues now because the nerve is not transmitting the proper signals to the calf muscle...and this condition just worsen's with time. If you or a member you know of, had this condition, I hope you will respond when you have time.

Pap5 (63 year old kid, who still was playing baseball with the oldtimers until
the injury set me back over a year ago.)

[B][SIZE="3"][SIZE="[SIZE="5"]Howdy. Thanks for having me here. My wife is a regular over on the CRPS thread so I wandered over here. Not really sure how or when my back gave out. Its been a long slow process over the years. Seems I caught a good case of rheumitory arthritis long ago. None of the medicines work on me so I just get a bit slower every day. Now it seems to me its moved to my spine. My last MRI shows multible bulges and bone spurs on several disk as well as curviture of the spine right to left. The neurosurgen says surgery would only make it worse. So now I see a pain doc once a month. He's got me on morphine sulfate 15 mg every 8 hours and endocet 10/325 every 8 hours. Predisone 10 mg twice a day and nerotin 600mg every night. This is just no life. I remember all too well the joys of running and caving most every week end. Now all I do is piddle around the house. But as bad as I think I hurt, I know it could be worse. I see it every day with my wife. She has CRPS and is in real pain all day every day. But Im so glad you all are here and I read the post most every day. Hopefully everyone will be as pain free as possable with this cold wet weather moving in. Mike in Tennesse