Discogram (This is NOT a "musical message from John Travolta" or some other clever word play, so no more jokes!)

Discogram: painful procedure in which needles containing a special dye are injected into discs in the spine in an effort to reproduce the patient's normal pain. The patient must be awake and aware for this procedure. And it sucks.

This is what I had performed yesterday morning--3 hours late. I was hungry; I was nervous; I was annoyed. I'd nearly cancelled the test several times in the days leading up to it because every source I'd read in trying to figure out more about it talked about the pain involved during and after the test. The pain, The Pain, THE PAIN!

I can say that it wasn't AS BAD as I had feared--no screaming out in pain on the table. We'll see what the results have to say in a week or so. Yesterday I felt pretty bad and stayed in bed most of the day (blessed sleep!), and today there's a lot of muscle pain--I realized this would be because they stuck three large needles through muscles in the bottom left quadrant of my back into the discs in my spine! Of course it still hurts! I've had so many tests done (X-rays, MRI, bone scan, CAT scan, and now Discogram), and there still isn't a solid diagnosis (or prognosis).