Hi Gil,
Sounds like you are done with these injections. What does your surgeon say? I guess at some point you have to decide on quality of life and wether it is time to do something and what that might be. Have you gotten several opinions from doctors on what the next step might be. This part is the most difficult and I understand where you are coming from. I had several years of injections, always hoping they would help. I finally had a discogram of my lumbar spine and at that point had to make a surgical decision about whether to fuse or have ADR's. I have had a long journey having ADR's and then revision. Most people do very well with them. My biggest advice is to get someone you trust and go with them.
Phylly
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Cervical fusion C4-6 March 2002
Fall on tailbone causing sciatica and back pain April 05
Conservative Treatment and PM for 2 years
Discogram concordant pain @L4-S1 Aug. 07
Prodisc ADR's at L4-S1 November 2007
Foraminotomy July 08 for Sciatica
Continued problems and back pain worsened
Prodiscs removed and discs fused at L4-S1 Feb. 09
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