My discogram in my case wasn't as bad as I thought it would be and had heard from others and researched that it would be. I honestly can't remember much at all that happened. They drugged me well obviously! But I hope if anyone else is nervous about one that I give hope since i'm so young (16) and made it through ok.
I think it's funny though because I must have told them when it hurt but I can't even remember getting dressed afterward or the trip to the hospital for the CT scan.
Now I'm just waiting for my surgeons office to call back to see him again and i'm so excited. Really I just want to know what we can do and finally figure a solution to my torn annular. We've been trying for the past 8 months to find something to stop the pain and i'm just ready to find the final cure. Well I hope at least!

Thanks to those who replied to my last thread :)

Hi Veronica and welcome to the board, this is my first time reading your post. If you do not mind my asking what was the reason for your discogram? You are so yound to be daeling with this. However I am glad to know you did not have a bad experience with the procedure. You take care and welcome,
Rachel

Hi Rachel.
Thanks for the reply to my post.
I have a torn annular in a disc in my lower spine. We think it was cause from me getting thrown of a horse into a ditch in the middle of July. I've gone through physical therapy, muscle relaxers that made me sick all night, an epidural that ended up with a spinal fluid leak that led to a blood patch, an MRI, a couple x-rays, and now the discogram. Basically i've had a lot of bad luck. We have the right disc now found from the discogram but my doctors are trying to take things slow since i'm so young and are afraid to do make any serious decisions such as surgery so fast. So on Tues. i'm scheduled for a fassit joint block, but we're not sure if we're going to do that yet. My parents aren't very comfortable with all the decisions my surgeon makes and they think the fassit joint block is unesscessary after the discogram. I don't know, i'm just ready to get it all over with so I can go to school again and live normal again.

Thanks again for the reply,

Veronica

Hello veronica, me again, i alreay posted to your other post, but just wanted to let you know that your a re now going to be apart of a great online family with a lot of support the people here are wonderful. I would not have made it wothout them.

Veronica
Welcome to the board. You have come to the right place for support. I am so sorry you have to go thru all of this pain especially as young as you are. You should be out enjoying life. I sure hope they find some answers for you.

Sounds like you have good support at home and a great Dr. Stay positive and you will heal fast.

Again welcome

That is awesome, I know a girl who is getting ready to have one..I never did, I am going to have her come here and read your story, that will give her inspiration. See, this is how we help each other here. You don't even know it, but your post will help lots of others get the courage they need. :)

Yvette, I'm glad I can help :)


Clover, thanks for the support and the welcome. I am really glad I joined these health boards, I didn't know that it would help so much and I would get so many responses. I'm on here now almost more then my other online favorites haha.
Thanks!

Veronica, thrown from a Horse dang!!! Have they checked and made sure you don't have any instability or spondyolethesis? Eww!!! My horse back riding days are over :confused:

Have you gotten a second or third opinion?

Yvette!

I don't think they have checked for instability or spondyolethesis because I have no clue what they are ha, But maybe they have?

Yeah my horse riding days are done for too for sure!

Not really, I've been to a lot of doctors though and they agree on what's going on but I havent gone to more then one neurosurgeon. So in a way I have more then one opions but not from a surgeon.

Well sometimes, when there is an event like what happened to you, there can be a fracture or crack in the pars effect, which will let your vertebrae slip. During the flexion and extension xrays they generally look to see if when you are bending if the vertebrae is slipping out of place. But I'm not a doctor I might not be getting that right ok. I had spondyolethesis but it wasn't causes from a traumatic event mine was degenerative, and there is another type when people are born with it. Don't get freaked out, they'd tell you if they found that. :)

Veronica--Hi, my name is Gail and Yvette told me to read your thread as it would help me, and guess what--it does help--just to know that someone else has been through this and made it w/o trauma. I'm the biggest chicken when it comes to needles that you'll ever meet. Sadly enough, I passed this on to my son--not my daughter, my son. Poor guy, he still passes out when he sees needles. Anyway, I just wanted to thank you for your words of wisdom and you hang in there--tou're much too young to have all these problems now--you're just a baby. Best of luck to you.
Gail

Wow...I was bright eyes and bushy tailed for my Discogram. I remember ALL OF IT! Gotta tell ya...that was hell for me.

Good for you, they gave ya a pass on that experience.