Hi to all. Well I have been reading everyone's mail about the diagnose of arac. I first found mine in my medical records over 3 years ago. My doc didn't bother to tell me until I asked him. Now I have have adhesive arac. Getting ready to have a morphine pump put in. I have had everything but a mylogram and my nuro told me that is the worse thing for arac. I haven't had one also because I am alergic to the dye. Thank God. My last surgery the doc looked while he was in there and saw how bad it was and how it had spread. Also the mri doesn't give a good picture of the arac if you have all that metal in your back.So many doc's just don't no enough about this disease, I have had to tell my doc a few things about it and he didn't disagree with me at all. I am gonna have to have more surgery in the future but for now I have opted for the pump. Now to the SS, well most people get turned down then first time. I got approved my second time before a judge, but what made it possible was that my doc filled out a paper saying what I can do and what I can't do. To this day I still can't lift anything over 5 lbs. and probably never will be ever to. I also had a great SS attorney.Don't let it get you down with getting turned down with the SS, do you have a good SS attorney?? Well I wish you all the luck. God bless. Becky P. 

 

 

 

--- In Arachnoiditis@yahoogroups.com, FERRARA1169@C... wrote:

> You can have an "MRI" performed & that can be used to help diagnose

> Arachnoiditis.

   i arleary had an mri but the metal in my back flashed back and

made it look fuzzy so they were unable to see anything

 

 

 

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