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Excruciating chronic left side neck pain plus lumbar issues
Spine Health | Last Active: Nov 18, 2023 | Replies (360)Comment receiving replies
As a long time pain sufferer due to a spine injury from a fall and aging process, I’m 70 and I’m a retired nurse. Your MRI report paints a very poor picture of your cervical spine, it’s almost scary. If I were you I’d be opting for fusion tomorrow. It’s no wonder you have so much pain. You have collapsing vertebral disk upon vertebral disk, bulging material from between disks, 3 or more disks are moving forward on top on the other and moving side ways (lateral) on another and you have nerve roots pinched as well. Your report states “ There is discophytic lipping and pseudo disc protrusion associated with spinal canal and neural foraminal narrowing at a number of levels.” You should be very concerned and I hope you wear neck protection or a collar?
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Hi Jenatsky,
thank you for your input.
I can't get a fusion yet because they have to identify the nerves that are causing pain with the steroid injections before preparing a plan for a fusion.
I am shitting myself because I am living a terrible life at the moment.
I read that to qualify for any surgery I have to be a good candidate for it.
How do I know that?
My doctors haven't explained to me the seriousness of my cervical spine and I wish it were better.
All I know that since I saw the osteopath 2 weeks ago I started to have more pain and numbness. I can't understand why the pain in my neck is also felt all the way down to my left foot.
The fusion would have to be a multilevel one? I also read about laminoplasty by Dr. Brain Su. on YouTube. Not sure if this would apply in my case.
Every day I am under a massive amount of stress, anxiety and pain.
Best regards
Alfred