Neurontin for spinal stenosis
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So I've been experiencing chronic leg pain for 3 years now, going from doctor to doctor and getting no diagnosis. 3 months ago under the belief that it may be muscle related I was prescribed qualaquin 324mg tablets and physical therapy, neither really helped much but I faithfully took the qualaquin every night before sleeping. Now recently I've finally been diagnosed with spinal stenosis and given neurontin to treat it.
Moderate disc height narrowing, concentric disc bulge and dorsal osteophytes, bilateral facet arothropathy. Central herniated nucleus pulposus. Distal superimposed on a very shallow spinal canal causes severe cord impingement. There are some reactive changes within the cervical cord with a slight increased signal on T2 images. Moderate bilateral neural foraminal narrowing.
C7-T1: Normal
T1-T2: Normal
Impression
1. Congenitally shallow spinal canal.
2.
Cervical spondylosis, with abnormality at multiple levels. This includes moderate spinal stenosis at C5-C6. Borderline spinal stenosis is identified at C6-C7. Neural foraminal changes are noted bilaterally at multiple levels as detailed above, most significant at C5-C6."
What does this mean exactly?
Posterior disc bulge flattens the ventral thecal sac. Posterior facet and uncovertebral joint hypertrophy is seen. This in association with a congenitally small canal results in mild central spinal and bilateral neuroforaminal stenosis.
C5-C6: Posterior disc bulge flattens the ventral thecal sac. Posterior facet and uncovertebral joint hypertrophy is seen. This in association with a congenitally small canal results in mild central spinal and bilateral neuroforaminal stenosis.
Hi! My 71 yr old father was just diagnosed with Spinal Stenosis...For the past year and a half he has suffered so much with Sciatica...his is excruciating when he has to stand still for any length of time, such as standing in line...or..when he has to walk around alot, like in a big store or something. They just did an MRI on him to confirm the diagnosis. Moderate to severe on the right side...and Mild on the left. A few days ago, he had a steriod-epidural injection in his spine.
My disc is not herniated, but my chiropractor suspects I am experiencing both cervical and thoracic spinal stenosis as well as a continuous bulging disc. I get numbness in my upper back as well as pain and numbness in my arms and fingers. Sometimes the pain is so bad that I feel nauseous and dizzy with small movements. This is very frustrating because it interferes with my ability to run and do Zumba which are my biggest hobbies.
I had spinal stenosis of the neck area. I don't remember where. I had been under the care of an orthopedic surgeon who did surgery on my neck. He replaced the bad bone with cadaver bone and worked on my back two weeks later. I can't say enough about this man. He did a great job. My only problem is scar tissue with nerves on the back. Recommend an orthopedic surgeon to look into this problem. Second opinions never hurt.
The last time I had full blown withdrawal Neurontin took almost every single symptom away including cravings and sleepless nights, anxiety, RLS, sweats, chills.. I take it now for spinal stenosis and it doesn't help the cravings anymore. It seems to do wonders for some but not for others. You should use this under a doctors care. You have to wean from Neurontin as you do antidepressants or risk siezures.
Could spinal stenosis be caused by chiari. I got the results for my spine mri and it says small central disk herniation with moderate to moderate bilateral foranimal stenosis at L5-S1 mild central spinal canal stenosis with mild to moderate bilateral foranimal stenosis of L4-5 mild to moderate bilateral foranimal stenosis at L 3-4.Does anyone know what this means. There was alot of other stuff on my rteport but it was too much to list.
I only took the Neurontin for 30 days, since I new it was only masking the problem, not a solution. I was very grateful for this drug while I took it.
January 2004, I was finally dx'd with Hypothyroidism and Hashimoto's (after a PA was intelligent enough to do blood work and find this out). I was given T4 medicine and after approximately a week of taking this T4 medicine the long time episode ceased. I thought oh, its due to this T problem.
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