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Can you get spinal surgery if you three herniated discs?

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Dr. Stan Lee answered

Depends: What is read as "herniated disks" on an MRI report is often an incidental finding and must be correlated to symptoms. A symptomatic disk herniation typically compresses a nerve, resulting in radiating nerve pain>neck or back pain. Surgery is a possible option to relieve pinched nerve symptoms, and not in a patient with "herniated disks" without specific, correlating extremity nerve symptoms.

Answered 6/10/2014

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Dr. Justin Esterberg answered

Specializes in Orthopedic Spine Surgery

Disc: The indications for surgery depend on the patients pain level, pattern of pain, time dealing with the problem, treatments attempted etc. A lot if people have multiple bulging discs and surgery would be directed at the disc level that correlates withy the symptoms to give the best chance of pain relief. Hope this helps!

Answered 12/10/2012

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Dr. David Lundin answered

Specializes in Neurosurgery

Yes : Having three disk herniation a does not exclude you from surgery. However it is quite rare that all three would need surgery. Best to get 2-3 opinions on this before having spinal surgery.

Answered 8/20/2016

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Yes: See a spine specialist. Hopefully they can identify which disc is actually causing your symptoms and develop a good treatment plan for you. Good luck. Check out spine-health.Com.

Answered 3/28/2014

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