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  • metallikat
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    Understood. I will get worked up by a neurologist for GBS and everything. But please tell me, what symptoms would be consistent with significant central stenosis from a disc protrusion at L5-S1? Thank you.

    metallikat
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    And now that I think of it, even before surgery, I tried decompression by hanging from a Teeter Dex 2 (back extension exercise equipment) and both legs would totally fall asleep while on it.

    metallikat
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    I will see a neurologist next week. But from the time of getting up after the first surgery, the right glute, right quad, and right hamstring all had a little weakness. Right calf had the most weakness and the foot would roll. So I definitely associate all of that with the surgery, or else it was decline just days before the surgery that I could not note due to being bedridden for 10 days.

    Can you humor me for a moment? If the recent protrusion did significantly compress the spinal cord, could that cause these bilateral weaknesses and changes in sensation?

    metallikat
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    The thing is, I am 100% sure I have neurological weakness. Every day since surgery I have tested leg strength by balancing against a wall and doing one-legged toe raises to test calves, and one-legged knee bends to test quads. I saw right leg steadily improve for three months after surgery, and left leg always had full strength. Now, for the last some weeks, both legs have definitely gotten weaker, and have subtly different sensation throughout that I know is neurological. And when I stand, both feet have developed a tendency to roll onto their outsides. This is definitely recent decline. My balance is still not too bad, but it has clearly declined. I can especially feel those same outside calf muscles not working right when I do toe raises as well. This, plus increased tingling and burning in both legs, permanent reduction in sensation in left heel which onset at same time as reduced sensation in middle three right toes, plus increased pain in back right on spine, something mid-line has to be an issue. I have no pain at all that would inhibit the toe raises and knee bend tests.

    metallikat
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    Also, over the years I had episodes of sciatica that were just pain in the back without radiating down leg, and I would get antalgia, sometimes deflected to the left, and sometimes deflected to the right. That makes me wonder if this protrusion has been there a long time.

    metallikat
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    ALso, does “protrusion” mean the annulus is still in tact and nothing has actually leaked out?

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