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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:😁

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!
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:😁

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!