One year later/L3/4/5 fusion

[Aaron]

I am glad you got that diagnosis for your tear and were able to treat it. I think the majority of dr. are missing tears as pain generators. Even after discogram showed positive provocation at tear and an epidural injection at tear level with herniated level that helped very much with the knifing pain for a while they still disregard
( which previous inj. at just herniation did nothing, still the injection could have been placed different angle of herniation, I know, confusing) . While a few consider it a pain generator most do not and say I should not worry about it. I am talking top thoracic spine specialists,some who wrote a book together and still totally disagree. I think sitting pain is a big red flag with chemicallly sensitive discs, just my opinion.