Well, got a call from the spine center, seems my doctor is having second guesses as to what to do, so she is sending me to her counterpart in a town east of here (golf community, richey rich area).
The phone call I received this morning was nurse explaining a dye and mri scan to see what is going on between the L3 to L5 areas.
She explained it was to find the nerves that were causing the problem so that they could "BURN" them.
WTH?!! (What the heck)
Anyone ever had this done?
She says that the procedure can help and would probably last at least a year.
I am up for anything as long as the pain is controlled or goes away, but am not sure how it will affect the rest of my body or extremities.
Will the pain loss cause problems with the nerves?
Will I be numb in other areas?
If I cut myself will I be in danger of bleeding out and not knowing unless I look down?
ROFL... I know... I will be asking the Doc's about it, but thought I would get some "real" answers from folks who might have experienced it first hand.  

Are they going to burn them permanently? I'd be asking the doc a lot of questions if I were you!

The procedure sounds somewhat similar to some that my wife had.  Using the dye and MRI and other imaging methods they found areas where scar tissue was placing pressure on a nerve.

The "burning" was done with a focused X-ray beam, it caused the scar tissue to shrink and relieve the pressure on the nerve.  It worked and is painless.  The doctor figures out how to target the area and avoid hitting anything vital.  When they did it there are several people involved, they marked up her body with graduated marks in ink and then 2 or 3 of them did the actual positioning and aiming and finally the doctor "pulls the tiger" to activate the X-ray radiation.  

Your situation might be totally different.  Like the others have said, ask many questions.  Good luck and I hope you get some relief.

I wouldn't do anything till I talked to a few chiropractors.
I don't know HOW you came to be injured. I've seen some pretty scary xrays, and lived in pain for over twenty years before I found a chiropractor who could put my neck in place.
Before you do what can't be UNdone, know where you are going.

Kris01 wrote on 01/15/16 at 11:52:01:


My wife has neck and hip trouble....and she visits a chiropractor regularly.

She has had some good ones, and some not so good.  One of them didn't consider her age, and the fact that she is on the borderline of getting osteoporosis....and he broke her ribs.

The fellow she goes to now is very good.

Id be crippled if not for chiropractors. And I have seen some I'd never see twice.
Funniest name for chiropractors I ever saw?
Dr. Askew, really. I nearly drove off the road laughing.

If you are on the East Coast you may want to consider an Osteopathic Physician. The Philadelphia School Of Osteopathy is the best training facility of it's kind in the world and if you can find a graduate near you you will have the advantage of a Dr. that can do Osteopathic Manipulative Therapy along with the ability of being able to do everything that an MD can do.

The guy that invented Chiropractic was Palmer in Iowa and he had Osteopathic Training before starting  Chiropractic Therapy.

Kenny G

I've heard that quite a bit unfortunately. Thankfully I've never experienced it personally.