Got my MRI results [View all]

I spoke with my primary care doc this morning.
The MRI shows I have osteoarthritis and “Scheuermann's disease” in my thoracic spine.

“Scheuermann's Disease is a growth condition in which the normal curve in the upper spine is increased, forming a hunched back. (I do not have any outwardly noticeable curvature of my spine.)

The disease typically occurs in the thoracic spine when the front does not grow as fast as the back of the spine,
so that the vertebrae become wedge-shaped.”

I woke up last night at 12:30 A.M. with severe back pain and it didn’t let up until around 7 A.M.
The Hydrocodone and muscle relaxers I took did nothing to help. I just sat in my living room chair and suffered for hours.

My doc has switched me to Oxycodone from Hydrocodone and is getting me a ‘medical marijuana card’. You must have pain for three months that is not helped by regular medication, and I’ve had seven months of pain.

He said he has a a lot of patients with chronic pain who have been helped with medical marijuana. It will take about a month to get the ‘medical marijuana card’ and I need go to a state licensed ‘marijuana dispensary'.

I can get it in pill form, without the ‘marijuana high’.