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A ct scan with contrast is probably the way to go. I am surprised your physician did not suggest that alternative. Sorry about the tattoo artist you saw. Mine used vegetable based dyes and had been doing so for the last 20 years. My liner is black as well and I never experienced any...

I don't know how long ago your surgery was but you have my sincere sympathy. I had a fusion with complications several years ago and was in severe pain bedridden 3 months after surgery. Eventually things did improve but it took a full year before the severe back spasm released. Hopefully...

I sometimes wonder from reading the various posts on here whether Surgeons are entirely forthcoming as to what the patient may experience after surgery. I wonder whether they tend to paint a rosey recovery period when in fact a nuraber of their patients are going to have difficult pain issues...

SounRAB like you may have a problem lower down in the lurabar region. The pain down the leg is usually indicative of nerve root irritation. I don't think that it is your thoracic spine but rather lurabar. You probably have some degenerative changes at those levels.. even a bulging disc can...

It is called contralateral symptoms. This usuallly can happen with a broad-based posteriour central-paracentral herniated disk with the apex deviated away from the side of the symptoms. One theory is that the herniation causes a pulling on the nerve on the other side. I went through this and...

Have you been on any of the anticonvulsives? Like Neurontin (gabapentin) Lyrica Topamax? Narcotics often do not address nerve pain. If your pain is largely in your leg then it is nerve root pain and the anticonvulsive drugs can be more effective where narcotics don't help. Ask your doctor.

First how can a fusion be miminally invasive. It is very invasive surgery. Laminectory or disectomy but a fusion is a very invasive surgery. Secondly if bulging discs and successful fusion just don't jive. The reason for the fusion is so that no motion occurs at that level....period. To be...

First of all your life is not over. Probably the realization that you will not ever be completely better has finally sunk in. A lot of us on here have had to deal with that fact. Some of us are able to deal with it' better than others. That doesn't make us better or stronger because so many...

Fusions are such serious surgeries and there is never a guarantee of a complete recovery of symptoms. Many years ago I had fusion surgery. There were complications and I was bedridden three months after. Slowly I got better but my back was in spasm for over a year. Also I never did have...

Sorry Harley Guy my heart goes out to you. It is bad enough that you are still suffering with pain. On top of that you have to be fighting for your livelihood. Can you somehow afford to pay for the myleogram on your own and submit it? Would another MRI with contrast be sufficient? Hugs Pooby

Your doctor neeRAB to check you out completely. There other things that can cause leg pain besides your back.

You probably have a bulging or herniated disc. Conservative treatment is always the first way to go with surgery being the last option. All the common sense stuff, no lifting, no twisting and for now no bike riding. First see your family doctor and get an mri. A herniated disc is not the end...

It will have effect on it at all. The disc is put under pressure and your position is not important.

Make an appointment to see your doctor. Don't procrastinate get in and see him. You need to have an emg done to evaluate the nerve.

Teton you have expressed yourself very well. An excellent post.

It can be agonizing or it can be slightly painful or not at all. If there is no major problem you will not feel it other than just pressure. I am not going to lie to you and tell you that it won't be painful when in fact it more than likely will be. Mine was horrendous but it was done many...

From what I have read and my own personal experience go with a medium firm mattress. One that has some give so that when you lie on your side your hips sink slightly and the mattress raises to your waist. That way your spine stays straight.

See one of the major problems with all of this stuff is that tests just don't prove anything. That is a fact. Nerves can keep firing pain signals long after healing has taken place and that isn't going to show up on any test. Neurologist are only just beginning to understand the full...

The level of pain you experience during a discogram is the diagnostic feature of it. Levels that look good on the ct scan can be causing the pain rather than a bad looking level that really isn't causing any discomfort at all. The discogram allows the surgeon to make sure that he is...

It may not have anything to do with the injection. Perhaps things have changed in your spine and you have to be reassessed. Just because you have had an injection it does not mean that another disc has herniated or an other problem hasn't arisen. A reassessment is in order. Make sure that...