MRI Evaluation by Neurologist!!! Yay!

Okay, it is not in my head. I knew that, but I can prove it now.

I got a different interpretation from the neurologist today, who saw me after a general doctor and a pain specialist saw me. She said the MRI DID show some significant problems with my spinal cord AND she said there IS a reason for my numb leg. She said it's the 5th disc and she said it IS bulging against the spinal cord and it explains why I'm having incontinence AND numb leg but she said it appears to be an older injury (from childbirth, documented first by Dr. Freed one year later).

So, I did have technical "cauda equina" and when I asked her where it was coming from, and she's saying it's probably been triggered again by the assault, she said it was from my lower lumbar 5 and 6 where the disc was out of place and bulging.

She also said I had a disc bulging near my neck, thoracic area, maybe from instability from my old neck injury, and it is bulging into the spinal cord.

She ALSO said the worst looking problem is from disc 3 which is right around my neck injury site where they did the surgery and she said it's definitely bulging into my spinal cord and is causing some damage to my cord already, where it is. This is a disc they had long ago not known if it was instable from the accident or was a natural thing, but it's looking like it's not a natural defect but probably from the accident and getting worse.

She's giving me lidocaine to try, which I've not tried before, and she is over-riding the other instructions to not give me pain medicine AND I think, the other doctor from Iran, Dr. Davori is maybe warming up to me and understanding my situation because he has kept me on Percocet and just took away the Toradol but gave me at least an extra Percocet. I'm still in pain, but I think it shows they're trying to believe me and maybe do a little more now.