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Help. Who's more qualified to read an MRI?
by pofdog, Apr 12, 2007 12:00AM
I have a history of DDD etc....microdisectomy in 94...Laminectomy Feb. 20 2007, both on l5s1. I also have a buldging disk at l4l5. I was doing better allmost 2 weeks post-op but never out of pain. Finally, another MRI 6 weeks post op showed a NEW herniated disk on the s1 nerve root and the buldgeing disk above only slightly larger.
I have been telling the surgeon I was in pain in both legs and back since surgery and how it got worse. The MRI seemed to prove why. I also got hurt 2 days AFTER the MRI where it felt like the buldging disk just herniated and something happened above that even, leaving me in more and more pain.
After seeing the surgeon today...he kept avoiding and didn't comment at all on my injury I felt after the MRI. He kept showing me a picture of the disk and where he cut, what he did, etc. He acted like I was going to sue him or something. He told me the raidologist and tech. suck and didn't know what they are doing. That they were wrong. That I have no NEW herniated disk, even though I pointed it out myself on the MRI film. He kept avoiding and going back to the picture of where he cut etc....
He said he thinks most my pain is from the DDD I have in both disks and that the disk is so thin ,and either try PT and stay on narcotics forever, or try a 2 level fusion that he is not qualified to do but would do the referal to one. Like he wanted to wash his hands of me.
I DO know what a herniated disk looks like on film. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see it. Do you think it would be possible for a tech/radiologist to diagnose a herniated disk that really isn't there? My surgeon even has me 2nd guessing myself.
I have been telling the surgeon I was in pain in both legs and back since surgery and how it got worse. The MRI seemed to prove why. I also got hurt 2 days AFTER the MRI where it felt like the buldging disk just herniated and something happened above that even, leaving me in more and more pain.
After seeing the surgeon today...he kept avoiding and didn't comment at all on my injury I felt after the MRI. He kept showing me a picture of the disk and where he cut, what he did, etc. He acted like I was going to sue him or something. He told me the raidologist and tech. suck and didn't know what they are doing. That they were wrong. That I have no NEW herniated disk, even though I pointed it out myself on the MRI film. He kept avoiding and going back to the picture of where he cut etc....
He said he thinks most my pain is from the DDD I have in both disks and that the disk is so thin ,and either try PT and stay on narcotics forever, or try a 2 level fusion that he is not qualified to do but would do the referal to one. Like he wanted to wash his hands of me.
I DO know what a herniated disk looks like on film. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see it. Do you think it would be possible for a tech/radiologist to diagnose a herniated disk that really isn't there? My surgeon even has me 2nd guessing myself.
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My MRI was read again and the surgeon was wrong, the radiologist was right.