[jsewell]

I had my EMG and follow up appointment. I have weakness on the ankle of my left leg ( not the one that went numb, figures) the doctor told me i had some ankle trauma. I had a leg EMG 2 years ago and he found the same weakness and i told him at the time that i had some trauma. Darn if i can remember what heppened although i did have one good fall on the mountain trail.

The back issue and right leg issue is acute lumbar sacral radiculitis involving the L5 nerve root. I imagined this happened at my surgery on Aug 4th. That is the one where i had no use of my right leg , except to be in extreme pain all the time. That brought me to a wheelchair. Some hardwear was removed and that pretty much cleared up the pain and with some practice could walk again.
On the EMg report it shows on all the muscles of the right leg, a chronic denervation changes, diminished motor recruitment .

i do have pain in my right buttocks area, hip area and of course lower back. My surgeon said some day i will be all the way fused. I only have L5 to S1 left. Seeing he had to take away all the hardware in the lower spine in Sept he had told me if this did not fuse or heal properly the next step wil be anterior surgery. so he once again brought that up. I am currently having epidural injections to calm everything down.
the first ones lasted about 5 weeks, the last ones only like 2 weeks. I have to wait until the end of April for the next. It is pretty painful now so this will not be much fun. I will probably have to up the pain meds.
So i am told when i no longer can stand the pain or as when the shots stop working it is my say to have the surgery,. My spine is very unstable at this time. No good news. But i didn't expect any. Right now the right side wakes me up at night when i do land on it.
This spine stuff sucks .
Judy