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Cauda Equina - Compacted Blood Vessels

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I have had CES symptoms on and off for a good few years.  Ankle, Leg, repeat UTIs and testicle infections. Has anyone any experience of CES caused by compacted blood vessels?

I have had 4/5 normal MRIs which did not show any problem. I have been looking at previous EMG results and found sometimes impingement shows at L3, S1, S2, S3 and it appears and disappears. 

I have just been told this pattern is typical of CES caused by compacted blood vessels. All the lumbar and sacral spine nerves run down the outside of the spine and if they are impinged at the bottom, every single nerve from above that point can be impinged. I have also been told compacted blood vesseles would not show on a normal MRI.

What concerns me is why I was not offered an MRI with dye much earlier?   I think this failure to diagnose the problem early may well led to permanent damage to my foot, bladder and testicles.

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