DrugBuyers.Com: MRI Results--in ENGLISH, please!?!

Thanks for your thoughtful response. My doctor actually left a 10 second message on my machine stating that I had "bad disks and DDD"...I asked them to fax me a copy of the report. This T7 injury is from the auto accident in 1992 (head-on collision while I was 7 mos pregnant) which has plagued me ever since. They never did an MRI back then--just called it "soft tissue injury"...

I did understand most of the report (except for what wedging is and what the compression issue means NOW.) But I did not understand whether this report explains the kind of pain I am having in the mid-spine (just above the bra strap) that feels like a hot knife sticking in my back ALL THE TIME with pain severe enough to wake me several times at night if I happen to roll over and lay on my back. Since I make my living at the computer and working at my computer exacerbates the pain ten-fold, I'm really in a catch-22 situation. My pain level is always around a 4, with it escalating to a 7 or 8 with ANY computer work or sewing (I sew costumes for the Renaissance Festival for extra summer money.) Once my back pain gets to the 7-8 level, it STAYS that way for days.

I've tried years of chiropractic (is FAR too painful to endure any longer and I wonder if my problem wasn't WORSENED by the bone-crackers), multiple courses of PT, massage therapy (twice a week for years), medications such as muscle relaxers, NSAIDS and other pain-relievers. None of these things has made much of a difference. I simply can't fathom "just living with it" the rest of my life. It's really frustrating and is single-handedly preventing me from having regular employment.

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