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ED FROM HERNIATED DISCS?
29 male three years now chronic peeing feeling and pain that wont go away along with erectyle disfunction i been though the million dollar work up every possable test,medicine, treatment, dozens of specialists nothing found or worked only findings are L4-L5, L5-S1 herniated discs. After going to chiropracter for back pain caused by discogram before surgry peeing feeling got worse after 4 adjustments but leg and back pain got better, I have had a lumbar endoscopic discectomy with IDET on 9/16/09 with little relief but symptoms remain after surgery. Cant think of anything else that causes symptoms anybody have any helpful advice please let me know before i go with my gut felling and have both discs removed and replaced artificialy
So being that you have this nerve root compression, am I right in assuming that you have a lot of leg pain? Do you Doctors think decompressing these nerves and fusing those 2 levels will help with your ED?
post op mri reading residual disc bulging at L4-L5 whithout residual disc herniation,central/bilateral disc herniation at L5-S1 has mildly enlarged since the previous study. the disc herniation is a disc protrusion. there is mild compression of the left S1 nerve root without change. there is now mild compression of the left L5 nerve root in the foramen 03/12/2010
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I don't know much about ED and herniated discs, except that it happens and that ED can be caused by damage to the nerves or spinal cord. There's got to be a lot of research out there on it.
I don't know what percentage of your pain is leg pain vs back pain, but as someone who has had one of these fusions, let me caution you. These surgeries are often very successful in getting rid of radicular pain, like leg pain. But are not that good on non-specific back pain. If the majority of your pain is back pain, you might want to rethink this.
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