Can't say my problems are similar, but I do know that imaging and symptoms can be hard to correlate. have you had any testing to see which of these levels is causing your pain?
sometimes this involves doing injections at various levels - but this is not too reliable since the steroids and local can spread to other levels (usually up strangely enough!)
more typically though, a discogram is done to see what level(s) are painful.
another question - do you have all back pain, or leg pain as well?
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