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My Thoracic Discography - NEGATIVE
Reposting return to costovertebral joints here. Also, will update ESI's and accupuncture here.
Based on Dr. Baumbach's recommendation, I had 3-Tesla MRI of cervical and thoracic spine last Thursday. I did an extensive review with Dr. Reul... no new data, nothing interesting. No new pathology seen in c-spine.
I told him how disappointed I was with the negative costovetebral ablations, especially after such conclusive results of the diagnostics.
He said that he was being especially careful with me, using low amounts of energy in the ablation to avoid permanent wrap around numbness that is not uncommon with this ablation. See the thread linked below for more discussion.
He recommended repeating the investigation to determine painful levels. If data is reproducible, he suggests redoing the ablation, but a little more aggressively. I think that is a fine plan and will proceed with that... next time I can get back to Bonn.
Mark