A member asked:

I have a pinched nerve on my lower back now i'm having numbness on my right leg and buttocks and pain in my lower back. should i go to the er?

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Dr. Galina Nikolskaya answered

Specializes in Neurology

Not necessarily: if only sensory symptoms and low back pain is not excruciating it can probably wait till a soon outpatient neuro consult/follow-up with an expedient mri L spine. it sounds like you had one already recently showing a pinched likely S1 nerve root. the need for emergency visit would be if you develop sudden leg weakness and loss of bowel and bladder control

Answered 11/7/2016

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