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Old 12-03-2008, 12:23 AM
Maddie Maddie is offline
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"Statement from the Master of the Obvious..."

Those links showed up after I posted....LOL It's like magic! Thanks, Harrison, I will give you a call tomorrow to get more information. I have already looked into those other threads and found out a lot more than before I posted.

These two MRIs, a year apart, were read by two different docs. I couldn't believe the difference in them...several areas were said to be a lot milder now than before. Cirobi, what you said is so true. If the second one is what I had been going on all year, I would think I was crazy; it made my condition seem very mild in several levels, despite the pain. I don't think the second MRI was done very well though. It is very dark and fuzzy in most views.

Ask a dozen doctors, get a dozen different opinions.

My pain has been increasing, and I was glad to read that the fissure could cause that....nice to know I'm not making this stuff up.
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C3/4-5/6- Mod. ant., severe posterior bulging w. nerve root compression. Sev. narrowing of spinal canal with cord compression.

L4/5/S1- Mod. narrowing, bulging disc, significant hypertrophy of flava lig.

Highly allergic to all metals.

NEW: 3/16/2010: Successful surgery in Brazil w. Dr. Pimenta; Nuvasive NeoDisc at C5/6, and XLIF & ALIF at L4/5/S1 w. PEEK cages. No rods, screws, plates. Non-metal lumbar ADR not available at present time, so went with fusion.
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