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Has anyone suffered from lumbar spinal stenosis? Did you have surgery?
Spine Health | Last Active: Jul 11, 2025 | Replies (186)Comment receiving replies
I think it is because my symptoms present in the left buttocks and left leg SEVERE pain can not walk and they think from my MRI i should have lower back pain but i can tell it is nerves being pinched in my back! I have Kaiserpermanente and this is what they have told me so I am in limbo NOT knowing what to do and cant afford private! I know if I had a surgeon say yes sure I can fix this it would be a whole diff story ugh crying!Thank you for answering 🙂
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I don't know whata Kaiserpermanente is. This is my experience with spinal stenosis. The surgeon gave me two choices stay on the pills forever or an operation with no guarantee. had the operation. I went from 10 pills a day to 5 a day. I'm now down to 3 a day. I've tried a lot of things to reduce pain. The most successful, unbelievably so, is the combination of acupuncture and lazar. I'm still on Tramadol but I've reduced the number of pills and extended the time between the ones that I'm taking.
I discovered to my sorrow, going cold turkey off Tramadol, is not a good idea.
Best of luck! What works for one, doesn't work for another.
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See if you can get an EMG/nerve conduction study of your lower limbs to check neuromuscular health and nerve signaling. Also see if you can get a MRI of your left hip to see if they can narrow down the source of pain and offer treatment options (like steroid shots).