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manfredo

manfredo

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curious2garden said:
It's a less common abnormality but it isn't that terrible. Causation is important in it could be some from the hip arthroplasty and most from the degenerative arthritis (you need to compare it with previous xray studies). Do you have any prior to the arthroplasty.

If injections help and you want them seek an anesthesiologist who specialize in pain control. Those are the guys that can do it flawlessly (usually). Ask him how many he's done and what his complication rate is. If he gets upset move on to someone else if you find injections helpful.

You have a small right curvature of your spine. Do you have xrays demonstrating that prior to your hip arthroplasty? If not it's possibly related. I'd have a talk with my hip surgeon about this and the retrolisthesis. It's possible you are done waiting.

Because of the osteophyte formation I'd check your motor for any weakness, or loss of function. If you complained of either I'd want an MRI. You also need your reflexes checks and charted to follow. Also check out your last MRI and see if you have osteophytes imaged and/or reported. If so and you're in a lot of pain I'd ask for a referral to a neurosurgeon (make sure he was a good one) to look at the xrays (he'll order an MRI). Sharp bone spurs in the wrong area can cause you a LOT of pain. Depending on the area they can do microsurgery to rid you of them and that could help a lot. Look for a neurosurgeon that does minimally invasive spinal surgery.

I'd say it sounds like a pain in the ass but overall more like a pain in the back. I'm so sorry you're experiencing this.
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Thanks for your reply. Just looking at my records, and I do have MRI's of my spine and brain done in 2008, and then another lumbar spine in 2012. My hips were done in 2010-11.

THEN I have also had lumbar MRI's in 2014 and 2017.... I have copies of all the MRI's and it seems like it's mostly bulging discs back then. Looks like it has progressed, but lots of documentation.

Good tip on the injections. I can't let my current pm dr shoot my spine again.

I am in a lot of pain. Strangers come up to me and say "bad back eh...me too" so apparently my posture and gate are pretty bad.

I was just reading up on endplate degenerative changes and that sounds lovely too.

Ugh! It could always be worse though.
 
raratt

raratt

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manfredo said:
Thanks for your reply. Just looking at my records, and I do have MRI's of my spine and brain done in 2008, and then another lumbar spine in 2012. My hips were done in 2010-11.

THEN I have also had lumbar MRI's in 2014 and 2017.... I have copies of all the MRI's and it seems like it's mostly bulging discs back then. Looks like it has progressed, but lots of documentation.

Good tip on the injections. I can't let my current pm dr shoot my spine again.

I am in a lot of pain. Strangers come up to me and say "bad back eh...me too" so apparently my posture and gate are pretty bad.

I was just reading up on endplate degenerative changes and that sounds lovely too.

Ugh! It could always be worse though.
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I feel for you, I'm minus a disk between L5-S1, exploded it. Of course that affects the other vertebrae.
 
manfredo

manfredo

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raratt said:
I feel for you, I'm minus a disk between L5-S1, exploded it. Of course that affects the other vertebrae.
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Ouch....that's where I was at...bulging discs and 1 or 2 of them were leaking, but I guess it got worse the past 4 years!!

The crazy shit we did when we were younger didn.t help....I see "kids" doing stuff and say oh that is gonna hurt in 20 years! Like gymnastics and such!!
 
MICHI-CAN

MICHI-CAN

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manfredo said:
Ouch....that's where I was at...bulging discs and 1 or 2 of them were leaking, but I guess it got worse the past 4 years!!

The crazy shit we did when we were younger didn.t help....I see "kids" doing stuff and say oh that is gonna hurt in 20 years! Like gymnastics and such!!
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At least you have a spine still. Jellyfish creature of opportunity types seem to abound.
 
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