Update after MRI
You guys can check my history in my profile but to make it quick, this started as low back pain and atrophy in 2019. Slowly progressed to more of my body and still in a diagnostic process. My lumbar MRI from the other day reads
"Diffuse, symmetric, near-complete fatty replacement of the
bilateral lumbar paraspinal musculature. This presentation
suggests chronic multisegmental lower motor neuron denervation,
possibly related to syringomyelia-induced myelopathy given
history, grossly similar to prior."
Like it says, my entire paraspinal muscles are nearly gone. My back hurts so bad all of the time. I've known this since 2019 when first mri showed this but ita getting worse and terminology scares me. Yes I have a long syrinx or cyst on my spine that the doc mentions can be causing it however I've had few neuros tell me it's not wide enough to cause symptoms. I'm very convinced I have a slow als. I'll be getting an updated emg on less than a month.