To give more detail about the discogram: You're generally lightly sedated, the needles to inflate the discs are placed, and you're partially brought back out of sedation. The doctor pressurizes the discs (typically one or more bad ones plus one good one as a control) and you call out with great volume which one(s) hurt. Afterwards, a flat xray image can be taken or CT scan taken to see how bad the discs are. You're not expected to remember and retain pain after the procedure but some do. The purpose is to make sure the pain generating disc is treated.
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Laura - L5S1 Charitee
C5/6 and 6/7 Prodisc C
Facet problems L4-S1
General joint hypermobility
Jim - C4/5, C5/6, L4/5 disk bulges and facet damage, L4/5 disk tears, currently using regenerative medicine to address
"There are many Annapurnas in the lives of men" Maurice Herzog
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