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To long in pain

I have been in very bad pain in my lower back since the very early 90s. I fell on a friend of mine carport after it had rained and she had oil that dripped from her car. After I fell I believe I was in shock for about five or more minutes. It took a few years but I began having very bad pain in my lower back, along with pain down the back of my right leg. It was so painful at times when driving I would bend over and grab my leg. And also pull off the road due to the pain. Well to make it short I went to a doctor who send me to a specialist which done nothing for me. They did MRI's nohing showed up. Around the middle to late 90s I could hardly stand it. I got where I could not get out of bed. I went back and had another MRI done and they said I had minamal degenaration of my spine along with a schmorel node. Other then that they told me I was fine. I am in worse shape then I have ever been in my life as far as pain. I have had many MRI's done and now it is moderate degenaration with a LARGE schmorl node which likly represents a old injury and likley causes no pain. I don't beleive any of it. I have been in pain for years now. If the degenaration is not enough for me to be having this pain then it has to be the schmorl node. I was going to a doctor about it and he just did not want to perscribe me a thing for the pain I was in. Then he began to ask me to stand up and show him where I hurt. I did the next thing I knew he told me to shut up and sit down. I have everyone of my MRI's and they say the same. Why can't I get a doctor to see what I see? I am 44 years old and I was always on the go never slowed down. Now I am lucky to be able to go walk through Wal-mart anymore. Muchless was my dishes or clothes. I am tired of being in this pain to the point of not caring if I wake up or not. When I do wake up I hurt from the time I try and roll out of the bed till I crawl back into it at night. A heating pad worked for awhile but now forget it. I just rolled it up and put it away. Please I am begging tell me why all the doctors and what I read seems to say schmorl node likly represents no cause for any pain. I can tell you different. Please help me. Your my last hope for someone who will listen to me and believe me when I say I am in pain. Thank you for your help. Karen
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Hi Karen,
I am very sorry that you have been in such severe pain for so long. Although I don't know anything about schmorl nodes, I have been experiencing the same kind of pain as you (severe lower back pain and stabbing pains down my leg) for the past 3 years. I have also gotten an MRI which revealed that I have a bulging disc between my L4 and L5 vertebrates, but the doctor said that this should not be causing any pain since it is not compressing a nerve root. So I can relate to the frustration of doctors telling you that there doesn't seem to be anything wrong when you KNOW there is. The only advice I can give you is to tell you the ways in which I have been able to manage my pain and hope that perhaps some of these strategies might work for you as well:
- Yoga
- Frequent exercise and stretching (especially with a yoga strap that stretches out the sciatic nerve and alleviates the searing leg pain) ... I can now drive for long periods of time without having my leg cramp up.
- Nutritional supplements: Methylsulfonylmethane (MSM) which has anti-inflammatory properties and glucosamine and chondroitin for joint support

I hope this helps, and whatever you do don't give up. Be persistent and continue to research your symptoms... sometimes when doctors don't have the answer it is up to the patient to heal themselves.

Susan
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I have had severe pain in my lower back for about 31/2 months now. My dr ordered a mri and I found out I have a schmorls node.  From what I looked up online they are not painful. I am in severe pain all day every day can anyone let me know a treatment that has worked for them.
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