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Help me understand my CTscan-Thoracic

Help me understand my CTscan-Thoracic

Can someone help me understand what my CTscan reads.. I just had 3 epidurals, one at 6-7, 7-8 and 9-10 was the last one. I started having shortness of breath to the point that I ended up at the ER 3 days ago. Got home yesterday. All heart stuff came back fine. Doc says he believes that it's my disc's causing the breathing problem, is this possible?
I thought I was having a allergic reaction to the epidural, but I didn't understand why the first two didn't give me any problems. Doc says, because it is the disc that determines how the steroid is going to react to one.
If someone could tell me if this CTscan is ok, or bad. I don't want anymore epidurals, all three didn't work. thanks

Canal and foramina:

There is disk degeneration with spondylosis and posterior disk bulging
with associated remodelling of the bone and osteophytosis at its superior
and inferior margins

Specifically,

At T7-T8, there is moderate to large central mostly left-sided disk
extrusion with inferior migration with moderate flattening of the spinal
cord likely present

At T8-T9, there is moderate central disk protrusion or perhaps extrusion
with likely mild flattening of the spinal cord

At T10-T11, there is focal posterior spondylosis with likely mild to
moderate sided disk protrusion and perhaps some impression on the spinal
cord

At T11-T12, mild posterior disk osteophyte hypertrophy with mild canal
encroachment without gross spinal cord compression is suspected

No significant foramina encroachment noted

There is spinal cord stimulator with its leads entering the spinal canal
in the lumbar spine with two electrode wires, the tip terminating at
about the T8-T9
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