
heello everyone im writing this post because I guess I need someone to listen and give me there opinion... Well I had a 360 two level lumbar fusion 1 year ago due to a botched up 3 level laminectomy done by workers comp a year and a half ago.. The pain from the discs were gone but I still have other pain and am very weak in the legs but I am on ultram and it helps me alot and takes care of the weakness... Well about two weeks ago I started to have pain above the fusion site I didnt think anything of it and then a few days later I woke up and couldnt move my neck without savere pain.... I waited a fewdays to see if it was just the way I slept, well surprise surprise it got worse and now my rigt arm is numb and has pain it feels like I hit my funny bone with a throbing feeling... I went to my primary doctor as I didnt want to bother my orthopedic until I new for sure there was a problem.. My doc sent me for an exray of lumbar spine and said the report came back saying that there was a disc herniation below the fusion site at the very last vertabra of the spine.. I almost cryied...

I didnt have the neck pain this time at the docs so a few days later I had the neck pain and went back to the doc and he said it sounds like a pinched nerve. I asked him if I could have an mri done on my whole spine and he said he thinks so but he isnt sure due to the hardware I have in my spine???? Can I have an mri??? Does titanium effect the machine..???? Is there an illness or something that could be making my spine deteriate at an accelerated rate??? I mean I am only 29 years old, if it keeps up ill be in a wheel chair in a couple of years...