thanks for the thorough response. I am definitely writing down your suggestions and will pose them to the neurologist on monday ive heard that emg tests are very dependent on who is administering them, so i figure worst case scenario maybe the new neurologist will do another one. As far as whether I had a thoracic/cervical mri, you are correct. The thoracic showed a minimal disc protrusion at t4-t5 and a minor disc bulge at t9-10. the cervical mri showed hemangioma within t1-2 vertebrae(the way they did the images t1-2 showed up here). there was no compression on either level of spinal cord.
regarding the l5 s1 herniation, im not sure what my next step should be…would a microdiscectomy even be possibly when the disc is completely dessicated? physical therapy isnt doing anything to help me, and all this squatting down to pick things up like pencils is KILLING my knees lol.
if the drs in my plan can’t figure it out, i may travel to either you or johns hopkins to see what can be done.
in the event i traveled to you, if i got any sort of injection do you yourself administer it? as stated, im considering injections but VERY scared and im only considering them if they have the potential to break the inflammation cycle and help the disc reabsorb even a little. i want to make sure who ever is doing the injection knows what they are doing. i was also thinking of trying a facet block first?
anyway, thanks again for your response…ill keep you updated as i have an ortho spine dr appt mon and my neurology consult tues.
ps..i also have a knee mri scheduled. do you think that could cause the leg symptoms and clonus/hyperflexia?
