Dr. Fiegenbaum called!!!

Just when I thought he'd never call, he calls. Dr. Feigenbaum called me at 5:00 today. He said that yes, I do have a very large cyst that fills up the spinal canal. The spinal cord only has enough room for nerves, so the cyst is pushing on my nerves and eroding bone. He says that he can't completely say that my pain is from the cyst. He is ordering me to get flexition (sp?) and extention x-rays of my lumbar spine and a Sacral MRI. He says that I don't have a "true" tarlov cyst, but a cousin to the tarlov, called a meninegeal diverticulum. He also said that I have degenerative changes in my L5 - S1, but there doesn't look like any nerves are being pinched. He also said there is a little tethering of the spinal cord and my spinal cord ends at L1 or L2, which is shorter than most.

So, hopefully I will get my MRI & x-rays done soon, so I can send them to him to review and discuss.