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slipped intrevertebral disc

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Can you tell me what it is, how it happens and what the treatment is.

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    That is a good question! I sort of have the same questions. I had a pinched nerve, that is what a chiropractor told me, and have suffered pain for several years now, no insurance so I haven’t been back to see another doctor. Within the past three months I was in the shower and bent over to shave my leg, with foot propped up on side of tub, and I don’t know what happened but it felt as though I had some kind of ‘bubble’ either slip through something, or something similar to a bubble bursting, in lower back where I’d been having all the pain from the pinched nerve! Does this sound like I either slipped a disk or ruptured a disk? I don’t know what it is supposed to normally feel like, don’t know anyone that has ever had this where they could tell me, so not sure just what I did, or what happened. There was extreme pain when this happened and this pain lasted well over a week afterward, in severity. The few days leading up to this I noticed I was aching a bit more than usual also and the pain hasn’t stopped since either, and has actually extended farther down now, where I have either constant, or stabbing pains, in the buttocks area, down into my right leg. Is this a disk problem?

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    Sounds like a disc herniation. I had a disc herniation that caused pain down my left leg and into my calf and all the way to my foot. My left calf became very weak I could hardly walk. It turned out that my nerve was severely compressed. I had to have surgery to remove the part of the disc material that had squished out and was pushing on my nerve. If you are having pain just down part of your leg it’s probably not that severe unless you are getting leg weakness also. Usually it will get better on it’s own in time but if it continues to be bothersome go and see a doctor. They can give you cortizone injections to relieve the pain. If it keeps getting worse then possibly surgery is needed but surgery is not that commonly needed. I know this is Ask the Chiropractor but don’t go to a chiropractor for it. Mine was not that bad and I went to a chiropractor and that is when it became severe and within three days of going there it kept going further and further down my leg with pain and then it was like the muscle shut down and I could no longer use my calf muscle. Chiropractors will say they can fix a herniated disc but mine became very severe from going to one.

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