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Dealing with Osteochondrosis: Any advice?

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Scott Brown36 Scott Brown36 NewcomerOP
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joined Jan 2013
#1 ·
Hey everyone, I’m 38 and over the last year, this lower back pain has been ramping up to a ridiculous level. Honestly, my job is pretty brutal physically—lots of heavy lifting, awkward positions, squatting, kneeling, you name it—and lately, I’ve been basically white-knuckling it through my shifts on a steady diet of Advil.
It’s actually gotten worse in the last few weeks; I haven’t hit that point where I’m completely paralyzed or anything, but it definitely feels like things are sliding downhill. My primary care doctor sent me off for a spinal X-ray, and here’s the readout from the scan. They won't give me the actual film unless I bring in a CD for them to pull it up, so this is all I've got right now:😁

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The thing is, my doctor is out until next week and I can't really swing an appointment before then either, so if anyone here actually knows their way around this kind of stuff, could you maybe break down what this report is actually saying?
Thanks a bunch!
Grace Davis77 Grace Davis77 Member
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joined Jan 2017
#2 ·
Layman's terms—advanced degenerative changes in the spine. I am uncertain whether this "hidden" spina bifida could be contributing to further complications here.
When you visit the doctor, you absolutely must bring the actual imaging or CD along with you, especially if you are seeing a specialist. This piece of paper alone doesn't tell them anything meaningful.
Scott Brown36 Scott Brown36 NewcomerOP
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#3 ·
Thanks for getting back to me. Regarding those scans, since I'm heading back to the same hospital where I had them done, they told me everything is just synced up in their system and my primary care physician can pull them right up on his own computer. That's why I don't have physical copies in hand. The only way I'd actually get them on a CD is if I decided to go see a specialist somewhere else instead.
I was just wondering, though—is there any chance that report will actually show what's causing all this pain?

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