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Does Severe Back Pain Due To Disc Prolapse Need Surgery And What Are The Other Options Of Treatment?
I am 43 yrs old lady & mother of 2 children. I have severe Back pain. In April, 2012, I have done MRI and reports says - Posterior and bilateral posterolateral disc at L3-L4 and L4-L5 levels along with ligamentum flavum thickening and facet joint hypertrophy narrowing spinal canal and completely obliterating the neural foraminae - Posterior and bilateral posterolateral disc prolapse at L5-S1 level along with facet joint hypertrophy is narrowing bilateral foraminae Taking medicine 1. Macelvit 500mg 2. Fludac 10 3, Mecanerve 4.Gabantin 100 for six months and got relief for some days and after that whenever get symptoms I use to take tab Gabantin. Now from last few days again the pain becomes severe. Is it necessary to go for surgery? Pls Give advice how to get relieve from it?
Tue, 1 Apr 2014
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In my opinion you should not play with your health like this. Looking at the history all i can say is that you need a surgery and kindly do not delay it as the more you delay the difficult it will be to heal after surgery. With these medication you can treat the symptoms but the problem will be there. Ill give a small example. Consider a rubber pipe with a brick place on it . The water will run through it but will very less pressure. we will not get the full pressure till we remove the brick. similar is with our nerves. So please do not delay and get the surgery done.
In my opinion you should not play with your health like this. Looking at the history all i can say is that you need a surgery and kindly do not delay it as the more you delay the difficult it will be to heal after surgery. With these medication you can treat the symptoms but the problem will be there. Ill give a small example. Consider a rubber pipe with a brick place on it . The water will run through it but will very less pressure. we will not get the full pressure till we remove the brick. similar is with our nerves. So please do not delay and get the surgery done.
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