Hello
I am brand new here and hope to get to know some of you. I am 53 and have just been diagnosed with idiopathic degenerative scoliosis along with degenerative arthritis of the spine.
I had my first surgery for nerve root compression in May. My pain started about 3 years ago and it was basically down my leg into my foot. It has really been disabling.
AFter the surgery I had some short lived pain free days, but it has come back. No DR. says more surgery will probably be necessary. But he doesn't want to do a fusion because it will cause weakness and stress on the next vertabre and it will start a chain reaction.
So for now, he has set me up with another nerve block (I hate those) and physical therapy and I take Darvocet or Oxycodone (only on REALLY bad days) and try to learn to live with it.
I don't know what the numbers are on the curve as DR hasn't told them to me, but everytime I go in to see him he sighs and says what a mess my back is! I do know that the problem is at L3 and L4.
Anyone have any experience with PT or spinal blocks? Any other things that have worked for me in releaving the leg pain?
Thanks for reading
Liz
I am brand new here and hope to get to know some of you. I am 53 and have just been diagnosed with idiopathic degenerative scoliosis along with degenerative arthritis of the spine.
I had my first surgery for nerve root compression in May. My pain started about 3 years ago and it was basically down my leg into my foot. It has really been disabling.
AFter the surgery I had some short lived pain free days, but it has come back. No DR. says more surgery will probably be necessary. But he doesn't want to do a fusion because it will cause weakness and stress on the next vertabre and it will start a chain reaction.
So for now, he has set me up with another nerve block (I hate those) and physical therapy and I take Darvocet or Oxycodone (only on REALLY bad days) and try to learn to live with it.
I don't know what the numbers are on the curve as DR hasn't told them to me, but everytime I go in to see him he sighs and says what a mess my back is! I do know that the problem is at L3 and L4.
Anyone have any experience with PT or spinal blocks? Any other things that have worked for me in releaving the leg pain?
Thanks for reading
Liz
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