Stenosis
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Stenosis
What I thought was Sciatica turned out to be spinal stenosis, but nothing serious. The pain radiated down my right leg due to a pinched nerve. MRI showed it pretty clearly. Getting the shot next week.
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Good luck. I was diagnosed with severe lumbar stenosis 5 years ago. Lots of radiating pain and tingling in the feet. Cycling is the one thing I can do that doesn't aggravate it. It's a challenge but one thing I've learned is to stay active. It's a lot worse when it stiffens up after not doing anything.
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Good luck. I was diagnosed with severe lumbar stenosis 5 years ago. Lots of radiating pain and tingling in the feet. Cycling is the one thing I can do that doesn't aggravate it. It's a challenge but one thing I've learned is to stay active. It's a lot worse when it stiffens up after not doing anything.
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I have had a couple of injections. They usually provide relief for my condition for 2-3 months. I hope you get much better results. For now I stay as active as I can so I can hold off surgery as long as possible.
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Had two separate series of those shots, both times my pain became much worse in the two levels I had involved, L4-L5, L5-S1. Injured in a 10' fall on a job site, spinal compression. The W/C insurer jerked me around for 11 years doing little or nothing. Told them to take a hike and found a neurosurgical group that was willing to work with me.
Two laminectomies that failed rather quickly, and finally getting a two level PLIF (fusion). Still going strong, and still have the titanium hardware in-place, 2 cages around the bone grafts, two straps, 4 screws to hole things in place. Best choice I ever made, got rid of the pain down the left leg. and regained full use of a paralyzed right leg.
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”Sciatica” is the term given for the symptoms that you described. The MRI diagnosis of “spinal stenosis” is what is causing your sciatica. The epidural steroid injection(s) (the shot that you will be getting) will hopefully reduce the inflammatory processes affecting the lumbar nerve roots that merge to form the sciatic nerve. While many individuals obtain long lasting symptom relief from these injections, they are not a permanent “cure” for the root causes for “sciatica”. Generally speaking, most pain management specialists will limit the number of epidural steroid injection procedures to a total of three before suggesting alternative i.e. surgery, treatment when the the injections fail to provide relief. Not a hard and fast rule tho and may vary depending on the specialist. Additional alternative treatments include; physical therapy, chiropractic treatments, oral anti inflammatory medications, diet and exercise, to name a few. Many times, a combination of the above can be most helpful. I hope that your issues can obtain some level of resolution .
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”Sciatica” is the term given for the symptoms that you described. The MRI diagnosis of “spinal stenosis” is what is causing your sciatica. The epidural steroid injection(s) (the shot that you will be getting) will hopefully reduce the inflammatory processes affecting the lumbar nerve roots that merge to form the sciatic nerve. While many individuals obtain long lasting symptom relief from these injections, they are not a permanent “cure” for the root causes for “sciatica”. Generally speaking, most pain management specialists will limit the number of epidural steroid injection procedures to a total of three before suggesting alternative i.e. surgery, treatment when the the injections fail to provide relief. Not a hard and fast rule tho and may vary depending on the specialist. Additional alternative treatments include; physical therapy, chiropractic treatments, oral anti inflammatory medications, diet and exercise, to name a few. Many times, a combination of the above can be most helpful. I hope that your issues can obtain some level of resolution .
FWIW, I tried Chiro first, but no change at all.