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Originally Posted by Lillyth
What is YOUR experience? Where do YOU feel the pain is coming from? Only you live in your body. All the docs can do is tell you what the tests tell them, and sometimes that is not enough.
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I feel like the pain is coming from the discs. Each side of my spine doesn't really hurt. It just doesn't feel like its a joint. But I feel like people think I'm Lying or something... I don't know. Just a low day. Hubby doesn't want me to even consider 3 level fusion because of everything we've read.. But at some point I've got to make a decision. I just don't want to be one of those people who live on pain pills..everyone in my family had an addictive behavior of some sort (smoking, alcohol, etc.) and I don't want that. I miss gardening. I carry a pillow with me everywhere I go. I feel like people look at me like I'm 85 or something. Oh well. Sorry... Just a low day.
Lillyth, when do you leave for Europe? I'll send up prayers for a successful surgery.
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Deb
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1988 diagnosed with DDD, bulging
2012 trauma lumbar following yard work
Nov 2012 MRI Bulging discs L4,5, S1
Mild stenosis
Dec-Jan PT
Jan 2013 Discogram
Results Level 5 Annular tears L3-4, L4-5 and L5-S1
Need 3 disc fusion
Facet Joints injections, March 2013- no relief
Transform.., Epidural Injections 4-23-13 Right L2-3 No relief
2nd ESI 5-14-13 L3-4, L4-5, L5-S1 No relief ugh.
ADR L3-4, L4-5, Fusion L5-S1 Fusion Dr.Blumenthal TBI July, 2013
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