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Old 08-07-2006, 10:15 AM
tisury tisury is offline
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Early on in my back pain journey when the doctors were telling me they could not locate the pain generators, I requested a Lyme test after reading quite a few articles that stated that Lyme disease could mimic neuropathic pain from DDD. I live in a rural wooded area in Pennsylvania - prime area for the deer tick and Lyme disease. The rheumatologist I saw refused, but my primary care doctor agreed it was an easy and inexpensive test. It did test negative though. Thank heavens. I know people with Lyme disease - and if not treated until the late stages of the disease - it can be truly horrendous in it's symptoms and controlling them.
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May 2002 Degenerated disks at L3-4,L4-5, and L5-S1.
Feb 2004- Flexicore ADR - L5-S1
Jan 2005 - pinching pain in back and leg weakness is gone, but severe nerve pain in hips,legs, low back and backside has not improved. May 2006 Nucleoplasty L3-4 a
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