Help understanding MRI results?

[Maria]

Hi Hannah! I hope someone will soon respond that can break your MRI results down for you better than I would even attempt to so for now I just wanted to welcome you to the forum and say I'm sorry to see that you're having the problems that you are as I'm sure with your job you really can't afford to be as uncomfortable or in downright pain as you might be.

I think if Epidural steroid injections were offered I'd go with those as initial treatment if you've not already as if they work for you they can provide some pretty good relief. I'm speaking from my own personal experience with them.

I would certainly try them well before any consideration of surgery and most usually there's the trial of conservative therapy that is tried first such as PT, injections and such well before talk of surgery unless there is something emergent going on.

Good luck and again hopefully someone here will help you out a bit with your MRI report . Mark Mintzer (mmglobal) would be a good one to ask.

take care~ Maria