MRI Results and My Symptoms, PLEASE HELP!

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nevergiveup, I sure hope that you are still around checking this message board. my son, also army infantry, has a bad back/hip, just diagnosed with a herniated L1 disc. He just returned from Iraq, 11-22, 10 months of that 15 in constant severe pain. Of course he is to blame for part of this in mho, he never took himself out of the game over there, his guys went out and so did he. anyways, once he got back last month they finally did an mri and found or saw the disc. while over there they only did xrays and lets see, thinking it was his si joint due to his hip pain, injected him in the si joint with no relief, and they also did an epidural, but that was as much to keep him out of pain for his flight home in sept for mid tour leave, still no relief. now they are talking surgery. i was hoping to convince him to get into our local chiro for some traction therapy now that he his home for his 30 day block leave, but not sure that is going to happen. i just want him to be pro-active before surgery is accepted as the only alternative. he has many plans before his next deployment, this was his 4th, but they have orders for A this time next year....he still wants to finish ranger school which he didnt get through before deploying over a year ago and i just am not hearing a lot of good things for his back being normal after a surgery to fix this....

can you tell me how you proceeded? did you end up having surgery? what if anything helped? thanks for your response...

mitzi
in idaho
 
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