Thank you so much Dr. Corenman – you articulated the bottom line very well. I have a consult with another doctor next week since the first ortho spine surgeon out the gate said my only recourse was surgery and I will ask for the nerve root block as a next course of treatment. This has given me hope.
I forgot to put the findings summary from the recent MRI, which appears to note no slippage (assuming no subluxation means slippage):
Normal lordosis and verebral height. There is absence of normal pars interarticularis and lamina on the left at L5 and sagittal views. No definite pars defect or abnormality posterior elements in the right. No subluxation. No suspicious marrow signal.
When I look at the CT SPECT images, the left pars looks like someone took a hammer to it and crushed it so no doubt it is floating around, hitting nerves and when it does, holy moly…
