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Hi Customer (name blocked for privacy)

I'm so sorry to hear about your pain! I'm sure it is very frustrating for you to say the least.

No, LLS usually does not go away on its own. A radiologist trained to read MRI's usually interprets them and sends them on to the doctors. So, my question wouldn't be of the doctors ability to interpret it, as much as the radiologist who read the test.

Do you have a copy of the test results? If so, I can try to interpret them too. If not, I would surely take them to the big city if only for your own peace of mind. And, perhaps they can help you further.

Hope that helps,

Kerry

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Thank you for the quick response. I have two daughters that are registered Nurses with the same answer but I was hoping for a more techincal response of why Lumbar stenosis can not just heal itself or just disappear, your answer was OK because it does show another professional's opinion. Both of my daughters stated that they did not feel it was professionally acceptable or maybe even legal for a Doctor to state an personal opinion in a ER report, he statement was taken from a report he made of a ER visit I had due to the feeling of chest pains,(I have 5 stents) the day before I had been in his office and he had informed me that a resent MRI ( done locally as I stated in my question) showed normal and he thought that upset me, which he was , I GUESS, show as maybe a reason for the Chest pains (??????????).

Hi Misery

If you just had 5 stents, I'd say that the reason for your chest pain was because of your heart disease rather than from an MRI report.

Spinal stenosis won't heal itself. The spinal cord is not able to regenerate new tissue, and the stenosis is caused by either bones, or a tightening of some sort. This will not resolve itself. Especially since you said you were having increased pain.

It is really hard for me to say, because I don't know you personally, nor have I seen the reports etc.

I'm glad I helped you though if only to confirm what others of the medical profession have told you.

Let me know if you have more questions.

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Thanks,
Kerry

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Sorry Kerry for not hitting green button earlier but this is my first use and I was not sure at what time during Q&A it is should be done.
Just to kind of finish the loop, this Doctor had seen me the day before my visit to the ER with chest pain. In that office visit the day before the visit to the ER, I had reminded him of the past history of misdiagnose by the Orthopedic Doctor or who every had read my MRI in our town years earlier and that it only after a few years of testing for the problem did I finally decide go out of the town to seek the reason for my back, hip and leg pain. After complaining of increasing lower back, hip and upper thigh pain when standing or walking and he requested another MRI, that the he later said showed as ”fairly normal”. I was to have a disability review soon after this new MRI and he felt that this MRI report upset me enough to cause chest pains, and he wrote this personal view in his ER report, that is at the hospital. This personal statement of me being upset in his report written for an ER visit of chest pain should not have contained his psychological evaluations, which he is not train to make. Little history of my problems - I have Graves's disease, crohn's disease, sleep apnea, chronic hypertension, ischemic heart disease, 5 stents, chronic kidney stones, two bulged disc, asthmas and vertical diplopia causing double vision and now because of the LLS I have become super obese, a bad shoulder joint from a auto accident. NOT because of this report, because it was before I seen the report, I replaced him as my Doctor due to many other weird dealings with him, the last one, just to give you and example was as follows: because of a breathing problems and the worry of my asthmas he treated me for a week with antibiotics, after a week I still was having trouble so his office asked that I return to the office to pickup some samples of the same meds to complete another week of treatment, I went to his office, walk in the waiting room and greeted the receptionist, she goes into the back and reappears and tells me the nurse wants to talk to me, I say ok, but I tell her I will turned off my car and have my wife come in ( IT WAS COLD OUTSIDE), the car was just outside, thirty feet from where I was standing in his office, I was back within 20 seconds, my wife and I sat down, waited a few minutes and then were shown to the inter office patient rooms, the nurse came in and started to tell me how to take meds, at that time I reminded her she had done the instructions for this same med just a week earlier, at which time she said OK then you know how to take this, at this same time the Doctor opened the doctor and in a loud and unfriendly tone said, and I quote “ this is no damn drive in drug store” the Nurse, my wife and I were shocked, I responded by tell him that I only did what I was told to do by the receptionist and that was to come to the office and get the meds, long story short, a week later I got letter from him telling me and my wife to find a new Doctor. Now, please understand, the Doctor and I had never had any cross words before this day, he has done and said a lot of weird things along these same lines in the past but it was justing get worse, so I followed his instructions and got a new Doctor. I could go on about his earlier actions but I will end it here. The reports that he writes with his added personal remarks are littered through my files and yes I do understand that this is normal and OK for his OWN personal record files on his patients but not in reports that are seen outside of his office. Oh, and NO I was not upset about the MRI as it follows the same lines as what happen years ago that lead me to seek out of small town help.


Edited by Customer (name blocked for privacy) on October 24 2005 at 11:03am