Re: urgent please help!! MRI LUMBAR SPINE
honestly, my bigger concern here is the 'head' symptoms and the fact that they did NOT bother to at least scan the brain and the upper c spine areas? there is just no way that looking at the lumbar "only' would show anything about what is going on further up that spinal area and into the brain as well. i would be asking her docs about getting those two areas at least scanned with a contrasted MRI. 'something' could be and probably just is impacting that back of her head area? anytime you actually display numbness, generally it can come from more commonly at least two possibles here. the one of course being the spinal nerve(s) being impacted/impinged in some way(the c 2-3 actually innervate that back of the head area), or with some issue going on with actual bloodflow too. either way, just obtaining the contrasted MRIs on the c spine and that brain would hopefully show what actually also could be responsible for the leg issues too. anything that is simply below the level of some type of impact to the spinal or the brain just has the postential for impacting anything below it.
tho she does appear to have a solid finding in that lumbar area, it all depends upon more of what is actually being impacted or impinged than an actual 'finding' itself kind of thing? but she does need a good looksee into the upper areas i mentioned just see what may be there or to rule out any possible problems too. but that numbness and heaviness up there is happeneing from 'something' that is just not right up there and needs to be found out. there is just no real way that the lumbar finding could be remotley responsible for what she is feeling up top. only unless the actual cord itself was severely impacting any nerve signal flow thru the many spinal tracts that send signals to the brain. which this finding does NOT show at all. it would just take VERY severe impact/impingement of that actual cord itself(not simply spinal nerves) in order to even do that kind of thing.
but i would be pushing her docs here to obtain the 'WHOLE" picture and not 'just' looking at that lumbar only. numbness just has a 'base' somewhere. hopefully the upper is not a major thing, but it just needs some looking into right now. good luck tothe both of you with this,and please do keep us posted, marcia
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3-22-01,herniated C-6-7
11-20-01,placement of hardware for failed fusion
9-22-03,removal of cavernous hemangioma that was inside spinal cord. Neuro damage to L hand L leg and R leg.
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