Matt’s Herniated Disk

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1998 (in my early 20s) –

August

I find my doctor (a National Health Service General Practitioner, for readers in the US) very good: understanding, willing to explain and objective; not everyone may be so lucky. Notwithstanding, due to NHS waiting list of 3 months, I paid privately for an MRI scan (£300 from Vista Disgnostics in London Waterloo, although I live in Cornwall).

This showed a number of problems, most obvious of which was

Other interesting areas, possibly contributing, possibly not.

• in my early teens I was disgnosed with Scheurmann’s disease. I first found this out when my GP told me (before my sciatica began). As I say, I like my GP – the only one to mention it as possibly significant in 15 years of back pain.

Alex’s L5-S1 Herniated Disk

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