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BULA!
Thanks for the kind words and well wishes!Ahh yeah man I hope so too. You have slipped disc or something? I feel like I read it but not sure where.
I think I speak for all of us.... Hope you start feeling better sooner than later! I don't know much about epidurals but I'm not a fan. Maybe because my only experience with one was watching the doc tell wife they didn't have time to give her it before the baby came. Shortly after that we reenacted that famous scene from The Exorcist.....with the head spinning. Odd thing...
I have two herniated discs (L4-L5 and L5-S1), one of which is "severely herniated" (L5-S1)and extruded (meaning the nucleus pulposus [inner 'jelly' of the disc'] ruptures through the annulus fibrosus [outer layer of connective tissue surrounding nucleus pulposus]. This is the one causing the most severe of the sciatica and radiculopathy.
Then, I have another herniation at L4-L5 that is not extruded and not causing significant radiculopathy but is actually torn (there is a tear in the annulus) which is the one most likely causing the actual severe back pain.
I'm going to actually be put under general anaesthesia for the procedure and at least they are using a guided approach (under fluoroscopy, a type of realtime x-ray) and not like the old days of blind epidural injections