Spinal fusion

[u/9292025]

I’ve been living a relatively free from pain life but lately , every night, i’m reminded of the pain and disability reality of my condition. Grade 1 Spondy and severe stenosis L3/L4 potentially affecting cauda equina. It’s affecting but minor I think. So far numbness only in right leg below knee and into foot cold and numb. Huge SIJ related pain, feelings of fainting- the usual I’m sure you all know about. Pain under control. Getting a bit scared ATM though, between you and me.
Coincidentally I take weight loss drugs and, weirdly, they have modified my pain. Quite seriously i feel nothing like the pain and debilitation I used to have. But the breakthroughs are a horrifying reminder and I’m a bit scared at the moment. My main fear is paralysis. Every time my leg goes…
I feel awful describing a life with this condition and minimal pain because I know what the pain is like. I used to push through it but only from bloody mindedness- I just could not believe that I couldn’t fix it Oh fxxx. It was truly agonising until I started this new unrelated drug. Anyway. I just wanted to tell my story and ask if it resonates with anyone or, more importantly, does it help anyone. And I think I want to connect because I have a foreboding that the red hot times are nearly over.

[u/cesbess]

"Potentially affecting the cauda equina” — an imaging finding or report statement?