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vraesolo68,
I'm sorry you are having so much pain, and am amazed that you had given birth three times without pain medication.
I would want an MRi to reimage the fusion and to look for any cause of these muscle spasms. Sometimes those fusions don't hold. Some little slippage of a screw can cause multiple problems in even a perfectly executed fusion. If the injection is epidural or even facet, I'd say imaging first. I hope you find relief.

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Thank you, I am very hesitant to do an epidural. I had one done before I had c3-c5 fusion and it caused my whole body to seize up. Honestly much like others dealing with this I’m just tired of being poked and prodded like a Guinea pig. I had another MRI done and just as you stated there is some minor slippage of one the screws. My neurosurgeon recently retired and she was amazing and I haven’t been able to find another that I have any faith in.