re: OT Doctors Please Help Update: Page 4

I understand you have no pain. The steroid injections will shrink the bulging discs, therefore, alleviating the numbness.

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If i would need surgery I'm going with the specialist who spent 7+ years doing actual neurosurgery

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Actually, 9+ years just for neurosurgery and 2-4 more for for spinal specialization... Learning to operate in a space that is about the diameter of a dime...

I have an appointment at a multi-specialty spine clinic, so orthos who specialize in spine, as well as neurologists will be available to me. If surgery is needed, it will be a neurosurgeon.

Having said that, I began doing piriformis stretches on the right leg and that definitely alleviates the numbness for a while. I was able to sleep through the night last night. I'm leaning towards first neurologist was right with foot drop diagnosis with compressed peroneal nerve below knee.

I think the piriformis muscle became aggravated or something when I saw the chiro for the first and only time and he did 2 adjustments on either side of my hip and then 15mins of some electrical impulse massage thing. Maybe I'm wrong, but the only symptom I had before going to Chiro was foot drop... The numbness came after seeing him.

I'm going to continue on my tapered predisone Rx and hope the foot drop resolves itself. I'll continue doing piriformis stretches and see if that goes away completely and like I said, I'm still going to see a spine specialist with access to neurologist if needed. No more chiropractor for me ever again

Thanks to the OT for some sound advice

I just had to have surgery on c6&c7. I wouldn't advise seeing a chiropractor for this. Those disks are not just "bulging", that is a protrusion in to the spinal canal, and in light of what could happen if one slips or ruptures, you really should see a neurosurgeon.