Pierce The Berns

Slight degradation in the lumbar vertebral bodies.

-L1 moderate.

-L2, L3, & L4 mild.

-L5 moderate.

Right inferior foraminal disc protrusion. Mild-moderate facet hypertrophy.

-Between the L3 and L4 vertebrae.

Moderate disc degeneration with left paracentral and central disc extrusion and mild impringement of the traversing left L5 nerve root. Mild-moderate facet hypertrophy.

-Between the L4 and L5 vertebrae.

Mild congenital narrowing of the lower lumbar spinal canal on the basis of short pedicles

Oh hi. If you're still reading this then you must be interested in what the fuck all this means. Let me simplify it for you.

The squishy discs in my back are slowly degenerating (kinda bad)

I have a protrusion of a disc between the L3 and L4 vertebrae (bad)

I have an extrusion of a disc between my L4 And L5 vertebrae that's pinching my sciatic nerve causing searing pain down my lower back all the way down my leg to the ankle (really bad)

The vertebrae are getting so close that the space that nerves traveling through is getting so narrow that they are possibly pinching (really bad)

Extra credit: apparently I'm getting dangerously close to high cholesterol, so doctors ordering a diet (yeah really bad)

This is all hitting me really fucking hard, and I'm not doing all that well with it.

But somehow I feel relieved.

After 6 years of living around an injury when doctors always told me "just rest and take anti-inflammatories...but if it ever goes down your leg go to urgent care...but you'll be fiiiine" I finally took the steps to figure out what this pain is.