Vertebrae L5 and L6

So sorry to hear that they wint give you anything .Sceenshot all these stories since there is not alot of real studies or proof cause its rare but its definatly tru im 32 and have the same problems and Ive heard they same things but i aint gonna let them push me around and live a poor quality of life . I'll change doctors before I settle . So goid lyck and dont forget gather your own research thats what im going to do.

Hi, not sure if you are still on these board but I'm curious if you decided on surgery? Or have you found other ways to deal with your pain? If you had surgery, did you have a fusion or a resection? How is your pain now?

My 17 yo daughter has an L6, but hers is partially sacralized, so she has Bertolotti's Syndrome. She's been in and out of PT for over 4 years. She's had injections. Nothing helps and we're told a fusion is the next step.

I have an extra and my orthopedist said it shouldn’t cause any pain but since I was going there because of back pain I became a bit suspicious and looked into it myself. It’s rare to even have a L6 so there aren’t even that many pain cases in the 10% of the population that have it

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i have the same problem i cant sit. Had a few of the pain blocks, as i type i am in intense pain. just had another Facet injection yesterday. How are you feeling now

Hey folks,

I just stumbled on this site. I’ve never posted in a forum. I’m a very active 51 year old. First back issue was about 20 years ago with major pain flair ups sporadically. Had injection 2x. Found out a year ago I had l6 and was told it was very common. I have degenerative disc and herniation at s1, and I guess l6. I do not know if my L6 is tilted or fused to sacrum as I have heard others speak of. I have had issues with cervical too in the past. MRI yesterday also indicates hemangioma in l1, which again told by ortho non issue like L6. I’ve been an athlete my entire life and have had poor flexibility, bad hamstring injuries and hip pain to go along with back. Always chalked it up to not enough stretching and wear and tear from high impact activity. I’m at a loss of what to do next. I have a strong core, nothing I’m taking helps with pain except the opioid no one wants to prescribe, which I get. I only have taken opioid when pain hits a 9 or 10. I am taking some comfort in reading about everyone else’s symptoms and issues as it makes me feel like I’m not conjuring up the extreme pain and frequent the struggles such as walking like I’m 100 after my commute, or feeling better for a bit after a run, or needing room to sleep to reposition.

Hi. I am 16 years old I am very active and workout with weights a lot. I also have a 6th lumbar vertebrae and have back pain every time I do anything active and when I work out “to much” which isn’t that’s much all the time I can get chronic back pain where I have to miss school and other activities I have been dealing with this for the last 2 1/2 years and don’t know what to do. I can’t stop working out because if I don’t workout I don’t get any stronger and I’m at a crucial point in my life where I can build muscle very easily. I have stopped doing regular squats and went to leg press but this still hasn’t helped. Most of my family think have a chance to play college ball but if I can’t get this back thing under control I can’t see anyone wanting me. Is there any type of surgery I can under go or anything?

Did you try steroid injection? i have exactly the same problem and going for injection.

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Issues surrounding an L6 vertebrae might be giving me long term back pain. Anyone with similar issues?

What should I expect if I'm having 2 ruptured discs in my L5 and L6?

When it comes to bones, problems depend on many factors. There's nothing like an 'out-of-whack' spine to get the ball rolling, in my personal experience. Now, in 2017 and 18, I developed the worst pain of my entire life (had 3 children). So, I got up one day and I could barely stand. For the next 9 month, I could neither sit flat down, or walk. My GP had died the year before. Thank God for my vast, extensive medical knowledge (and some heavy intuition). I instinctively felt this was a 'muscular' issues at the root. Speaking of roots, the pain was between my buttocks, head of femur - excruciating beyond belief! So, I got someone to get me to a muscle specialist (sports med guy). He picked up a leg-length discrepancy, showing In gait. Now amount of muscular manipulation did it for me! To cut this story short - even though a new GP 'pass me over' as having 'probably lumbago' I pushed her to get scanned. We ended up doing the whole nine yards. No manner of analgesics helped me. I am allergic to Tylenol EXTRA. She finally put me on Gabapentin....up to a super high dose - no pain relief. By this time, I wasn't sure who I was. The Gabapentin now gave me some neuro issues. I wanted to get a GI endo done (it runs in my family). The morning after taking the Golightly prep' I was fit to be tied. How I made it, even with assistance, to the hospital GI suite I will never know. Life was a blur. That fast anesthetic was a glad relief. I awoke talking to Charlie Chaplin, I recall and had a passion for the GI doc' who did the scope...kind of classic. Back at the pain situation..I said i'd shorten it..well, at the end of horrific, unbearable attempts to be transported to pain clinics, procedure rooms at clinics, even the darn spinal shot of Dexa - nothing! Then, I recalled an amazing young resident I had know, in Physiatry - I found him, and with the help of family, dragged myself to see him. When I mentioned I believed this was a Piriformis muscle situation, he totally agreed! Yep, I work sitting down every day. So, I ended up with a young man, ex-nurse, chiropractor with some new therapies. He trained me in special exercise and moves to solve my unbalanced pelvis. Then, I took it home and have been doing those moves every since. I know I cannot Not do them. The cross-legged sit and rotate, I believe, is what keeps me balanced, and keeps that Piriformis muscle in order. We all spend far too many hours sitting, in front of computers. It was about 3 years after I had this mega disability =that we found articles online about Piriformis syndrome. I had the worst level of pain with it. Btw, Gapapentin....I would not give it to my worst enemy, but the prescribe it for many elderly patients. It messes with your head in a bad way. After I found a new GP (in her 20s) I said "I need to get off this Gaba'" I knew it should be weaned very slowly - she cut it drastically! I was on about 1600 mg. I went into a withdrawal.....like losing my mind. You don't need to run miles to be fit. You don't need to exercise forever....you need to stretch and move the body, in order to keep the skeleton in balance. All the best to you who suffer. Hope you found this interesting.