nomoredenial

hello everyone I ve been to this board off and on. mostly off because sitting still is very problematic. I have to change positions/activity very often. I get real stiff in L5 and cant straighten up after sitting. sometimes there is a sharp pain there suddenly when I am moving about. but not so much anymore its improved.
so heres my delima IME says nothing is wrong with me. I wont go into the lame review of his but it did not address the situation ongoing. I now have to go back to work but cant do what I did before which repeated lifting. I feel ok when moderately moving about until I fatigue out. but I cant remain still so I force myself to do stuff to keep from locking up at the cost of some pain. I can work I will likely do something part time, but I am walking away from a lucrative career. only because an IME review in the healing process is sending me back before I know how much I am going to heal.
what I will post is the mri report if anyone recognizes any of this tell me because I have looked up the stuff and I see justification for the constant 3-4 pain level it gets worse but mostly is here. what I feel is a connection between degenerative disk, facet arthrosis, annular tear, and L5 issues listed. also not listed is a transitional vertebrae L5. And either I have a high tollerance or I am a wimp about a little pain. but I do feel this. and it is different than previous Sacral illiac pain that I used to have years ago. this came suddenly and has been slow to recover. I will lose my job tuesday if I dont return but I cant see how to do so.

Mri lumbar spine
sagital midline images demonstrates the presence of shmorl's nodes involving endplates at the L1-L2. there is mild edema involving endplates L1 and L2. this is adjacent to scmorl's nodes described. there is no frank compression fracture or other trabecular injury.

L1-L2 disc level: there is normal posterior disc contour with no central canal or neural foraminal narrowing.

L2-L3 disc level: normal disc height and signal intensity there is normal posterior disc contour with no central canal or neural foraminal narrowing. there is mild flaval hypertrophy.

L3-L4 disc level: there is normal disc height and signal intensity normal posterior disc contour with no central canal or neural foraminal narrowing. There is bilateral flaval hypertophy and facet arthrosis that contributes to a mild trefoil configuration of the central canal without frank narrowing. the neural foramina are minimally narrowed inferiorly.

L4-L5 disk level: There is desiccative change. There is a left foraminal annular tear. there is a very small superimposed left foraminal protrusion that contributes to the mild narrowing of the entry zone of the neural foramen inferiorly without frank compression of the exiting nerve root. the central canal is not narrowed . there is mild flaval hypertrophy and facet arthrosis. the right foramen is widely patent.

hmm it seems that the IME did not return page 2 when they copied records. I dont know if anything more is on page 2 of the report. but I know he said theres nothing wrong and I can return no restrictions but certain movements like daily care is uncomfortable too say the least but I am doing better than when I last post as now mild movement activity helps versus here: <http://www.healthboards.com/boards/showthread.php?p=3445119#post3445119>
but worse than way worse than here last year at this time and the previous several years when I was starting to think I had conquered my back demons and my inner demons that resulted from dealing with healing over time.