mri results,help pleasseeee

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not sure if anyone can advise on findings.
had similar prob 2 years ago,but it resolved after many months.This time was reasonable fit,walking 10ks 5x a week,had severe achilles pain,had mri on this no real probs,mild tendonitis diagonosed ,however leg and back pain also present so had mri on back.
finding
features of T1 and T2 hyperintense lesions @ L3 &L2,consistent with vertabral haemangiomata.Dengenerative signal within L4 &L5-S1 disks.At L4 & L5features r consistant with annular disc tear with annular disc bulge narrowing the spinal canal,producing an area of realative spinal stenosis with AP diameter 0f 7mm narrowing the lateral recesses bilaterally in the rsgion of the descending L5 and S1 nevre roots,but without focal disc protrusion.
Similar appearances @ L5-S1 particulary @ the level of L5_S1 on the left.The conus is positioned @ T12-L1 with normal appearances,No abnormalities seen in the retroperitioneum.
Generally cellular bone marrow on T1 imaging and this should be correlated with the results of a full blood count to exclude inflitration.(have had this done)
 
just wanted to bump this back up.Any advice would be great or if anyone could point me in the right direction to get some answers that i can understand ,lol
thx Donna
 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hi, Donna. I can only give you some general help. Simply put, at L4 and L5 the disc is torn and bulging, and pressing on the spinal canal causing stenosis (narrowing) of the canal.

Your best bet is to type in each phrase (such as hemangioma, or spinal stenosis) and get a much better idea of what is going on. I don't want to interpret things I'm not familiar with and steer you wrong.

Good luck...and please stay in touch.

Carol
 
many thx.I have goggled it and have a general idea,but i was wondering what the next step is,whether surgery is the answer as a similiar thing happened 2 years ago and im getting pretty fed up with being limited in what i do for months at a time .
 
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