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A member asked:
Do i need surgery for a bulging disc compressing on thec sac, i have intermittent nerve pain in legs ?
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Bulging disc: Just having a bulging disc dose not mean surgery. Your pain is intermittent only - what matters is are there ant other features (weakness, sensory deficit etc...) and how bad the pain is in terms of what you can and cannot do.
Answered 6/21/2014
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