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Reply With QuoteI would definitely bring it up with your doctor. My pain felt like sandpaper going up and down my spine, with burning; but I never had leg, hip or butt pain.
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Help with understanding new pain Anyone with lumbar DDD have pain that can only be described like someone is taking a pair of scissors and cutting you square in the disc area????
I'm concerned simply because this is a new sensation that I have not had. My normal pain is more "radiculopathic" (pins and needles in right leg, toes, etc) with normal deep rooted pain in the lower back.
The burning that I have in my left leg seems to be concentrated entirely in the left butt check down into the hamstring area (all on the left). So now, I have the pins and needles on the right, with the burning sensation on the left.....Should I be concerned with a new problem??????
Matt Brown
L5-S1 DDD with retrolisthesis, central HNP and severe discogenic pain
18 March 2011 - Pro-Disc L installation
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Re: Help with understanding new pain I would definitely bring it up with your doctor. My pain felt like sandpaper going up and down my spine, with burning; but I never had leg, hip or butt pain.
Re: Help with understanding new pain Unfortunately, with spine issues there is a varied spectrum of pain and symptoms. I would venture to say that this "new" pain is related to your pre-existing spine issues. Unless you are having gross neurological deficits and/or loss of bowel/bladder, I would chalk this up to a "flare up" with a new sensation of pain.Originally Posted by bigdogchief76
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Re: Help with understanding new pain HI Matt
I have the same issues pins and needles in left leg 24-7 and burning in right foot that comes and goes.
The left leg also gets worse at times the wonderfull life of DDD
All The Best
Gil
L5-S1 lam 1994
L2 to L5 DDD
L3 -L4 hern Dec 2007.
L4-L5 Annular fissure with mild central stenosis and moderate facet hypertrophy.
L5-S1 bilaterial neural foraminal narrowing with inferior effacement.
L2-L3 Right-sided neural foraminal narrowing
L3-L4 related to posterolateral hypertrophic spurs and facet hypertrophy.
C3-C4 limited DDD
15 injections Depo. P.T. 18 months 9 dose packs,
Nerve Block Injections.4 ESI S1
L5-S1 Foraminotomy 09
L4-L5 Microdiscectomy 09 ReHerniation 4-2010
Surgery 6-29-11 L4-L5-S1 Decompression Fusion L5-S1 and Coflex F implants
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