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I have severe lumbar stenosis L4-L5, L5-S1.
Suffering with it for about 5 yrs. My symptoms are low back pain, bilateral hip/buttock pain, bilateral leg pain, numbness and tingling. I'm a retired Chiropractor 57 years old. Conservative treatment was of minimal help. Epidurals have been beneficial and helped me delay surgery. I've also had ablation/radio-frequency once which helped the lower back pain. My good friend is a spine surgeon who has seen my MRI and examined me, his opinion is I will need surgery at some point, pretty much up to me when. My mom had 2 lumbar spine surgeries, Dad-3, older brother-2, younger sister-1, my younger brother has same affliction, not as advanced as me.
I'm getting fed up, I quit bowling and tennis last September. I will likely have surgery this winter.
Epidurals have helped but obviously won't cure stenosis.
Good luck, Tim
Last edited by timchar; 06-03-2017 at 06:58 AM..
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