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What on earth could be causing my nerve pain in my legs?
Spine Health | Last Active: Mar 15 5:43pm | Replies (13)Comment receiving replies
@angrynerves
Ask your mom to take off work and go with you to your appointments. It is critical to have support and advocacy. Don’t let doctors and surgeons talk down to you or dismiss you and your symptoms because you are a young female. You know your body best and you should not need to ignore pain.
Have you been given spinal injections of lidocaine/steroid to see if it would help reduce inflammation/pain?
When were you diagnosed? Did you ever wear a back brace when you were younger?
Your degree of scoliosis falls in the moderate range and could be affecting your muscles/nerves and be behind your pain.
1. https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/15837-scoliosis
2. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/scoliosis/symptoms-causes/syc-20350716
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I haven't had injections unfortunately, most of the pain management places that I want to said that they couldn't inject me because nothing came up with my MRI so I had to take the boot. I am super interested in a lidocaine injection as well as a nerve block.
I was diagnosed at the start of Middle School I think? I was braced for about 2 years and that was all that they did in terms of intervention, once the curve stabilized I was weaned off of the brace and that was that. I never actually felt any pain in my early years up until I was 18 I was pain-free
I saw your comment about AS! A few people mentioned to me that just due to my MRI not showing any kind of degeneration and nothing according to inflammation, that it's probably not as, my rheumatologist waved it off and said that while I have the gene marker the fact that I don't have the flagship symptoms it's probably not that. Though I'm honestly not really opposed to trying out biologics related to it to see if things actually simmer down...