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I began having a dull ache at the base of where my neck meets my head. Left side. I was 19. They tested everything but my neck. Fast forward 17 years and a chiropractor orders an mri of my neck. The diagnosis was severe right foramenal stenosis c3 c4. This was 6 years ago. My symptoms at the present time are dull ache l side of neck. Severe morning stiffness to the point where i can barely get out of bed. Neck pain. It feels like when i wake up that there is a hump sitting on top of c7. Like a 25 lb barbell is there 24/7. My posture is bad. I get numbness tingling in my hands and fingers. Very bad in am. I have had 3 epidurals. Useless! Seen 4 neurosurgeons . 3 said it didnt look bad at all . Why would a radiologist say severe r stenosis!? The director of neurosurgery at new england bap...

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Hello, I am a 24 patient diagnosed with foraminal stenosis, lower lumber facet arthopathy, degenerative retrolisthesis, and neuropathy. I was put on Hydrocodone 7.5mg 4XD (120 monthly) three years ago. I had to leave my original pain management doctor after over two years because they dropped my insurance. I had to rely on my PCP to prescribe my medicine to me, but she dropped it down to 5mg - 90 a month until I get into a new pain management doctor (due to see one the 20th) despite my body having built a tolerance and being used to the higher dosage. I didn't complain, I've just dealt with more pain and have been put on sleeping medicine to try to get rest. My doctor has taken me off, put me back on, denied refills and treated me like some junkie, saying I'm too young and s...

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Mild to moderate disco-osteophytic bulge, propensity towards left, seen at C5-C6 level, indenting thecal sac, attenuating lateral recess and neural foramina, causing compression over left C6 exiting nerve root. Mild disco-osteophytic bulge seen at C6-C7 levelindenting thecal sac, attenuating lateral recess and neural foramina, causing impingement over bilateral exiting nerve roots (Lt. > Rt.)

I'm 65, have 2 herniated (mildly) discs, l4 and l5S1-also, lumbo-sacral degenerative disc disease, disc bulge and hypertrophic arthropathy producing mild spinal stenosis at L3-4 and L5-S1. I have a minor disc protrusion at L4 L-5 w/ hyperthrophic change and mild foraminal stenosis. On L4-5 where I have a mild left central disc protrusion there is a partial annular fissure (tear). I'm reading from my MRI taken on Feb. 2014. It also states that there are hypertrophic facets and ligamentum flavum which are noted diffusely. There is also mild central canal and bilateral foraminal stenosis at L3-4. At L5-S1 where the disko-osteophytic bulge there is a hypperthropic arthropathy. Also, on L4-5 the bilateral foraminal stenosis is worse on the left. Okay. Now for my history - I was a wai...

I live in New Jersey and I'm prescribed to 30 milligrams and I am trying to find a pain management doctor who will prescribe me it..I had a horrible spinal cord injury back in 2005 and again in 2011 and now I have multiple bulging and herniated discs along with spinal stenosis and foraminal stenosis and narrowing along with muscle spasms neurogenic pain and fibromyalgia yet I still can't get what I need they still for some reason continue to prescribe me 20 milligrams 3 times a day which doesnt even left me 45 minutes and they know that well everyone else in that office who doesn't even have an injury nearly as severe as mine is getting 30 milligrams 4 to 6 times a day and oxycontin 60 milligrams 3 times a day long with fentanyl patches and diazepam although I get klonopin m...

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Hey hey I live in San Pedro California 90731 good insurance.. I grew up wrestling and boxing as a young child and hurt my back when I was in high school I am now 25 years old.. I recently went to the emergency room and had an MRI done and the MRI found - disc Heights - hydration .. moderate l3 - l4 through l5 s1 degenerative disc desiccation. There is mild L 4-5 and l5 - s1 disc space narrowing. Facet joint - mild L 5 - s1 degenerative hypertrophic faucet arthropathy .. Disc morphology - - l3 - l4 3 MS broad base disc herniation with mild bilateral neuroforaminal stenosis, and moderate to severe central canal stenosis. L5 - s1 broad-based disc herniation. Impression l3 l4 through L 5 - s1 disc herniation with neural foraminal stenosis as described ... Moderate to severe l3 - l4 and l5 - 5

There is a broad-based bulging annulus and flattening of the ventral thecsl ssc back and mild foraminal encroachment bilaterally encroachments bilaterally on the the L3-4