Please provide a tip on how to ask your doctor about spinal stenosis.

Ignore: Sitting and lying down isn't painful. Standing up is.

Ignore: Specific location. Degree of narrowing? Bone or mass or disc? Aggravating items?

Ignore: Would simple laminectomy be sufficient? How can I avoid a fusion?

Ignore: Many patients that I take care of give a classic example of spinal stenosis which is when they go tomany patients that I take care of give a classic example of spinal stenosis which is when they go to the grocery store instead of being able to stand up and walk around the grocery store pushing the cart they usually wind up hanging on the cart or resting their forearms on the bar as they push the cart around the grocery store.

Ignore: If you have back, buttock, and bilateral leg pain with walking ask your doctor about stenosis.