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Q:
Age: 23   Sex: F   Concern: bulging disk  

I was in a car wreck in october 2008 I fractured my L1 vertabre i received a vertebroplasty after six months because it wouldnt heal i had 2 mri's which showed a L3, L4 bulgin disk i went to a pain managment center had 3 epidurals had a spinal block i think thats what its called, where they burn the ends of the nerves its ben six months since that procedure they said that would feel like my lower back was sun burnt for about a week its still tender and cant bear to touch im in agonizing pain all day every day have been on percocet since the wreck my orthopeadic done a test tha showed my pain was not coming from the disk. I have no health insurance whats going on most mornings i wake up with a terrible headache. the pain goes around to my hips and my buttocks. my last mri also showed there was still some inflamation in my L1 vertebrae where the cement was put into the fracture.

-- cg2009gc


A:
Yes though I am not sure what else can be done.

-- Sherman Nam Tran, M. D.

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