Best wishes for a quick recovery, the best possible outcomes and a quick return to your normal life. .

Good news on the MRI results. Prayers for the surgery in 2 weeks.

I add my good wishes for a quick and easy recovery too. Very glad to hear you have no further worries with your hip.

Positive thoughts and wishes for a speedy recovery!

Glad for the MRI results news. Special thoughts for you on upcoming surgery!

"Nothing in my head at all."

This is a common affliction of many in my community and yours, the consequences of which are obvious. But in your case, I'm so glad you're feeling better.

Great news on your MRI's. I went to the spine Dr on Fri. All he told me is what I already knew from the orthopedic Dr. Lots of arthritis in the back, as well as bursitis in the hip. He did not think these two things had anything to do with the pain in my knee. He also suggested a epidural for the back & hip. I don't think I will have that as my husband had one last year that lasted 2 days & I don't like reading about the pros & cons on the shots. Guess I will live with the pain for now. Good luck on your colon section.

Well, I've been watching a waiting to hear the news and I'm so happy for you, that is a real relief!

Mary, have you been to a pain specialist? There might be other things they can do to help besides an epidural or to just live with it.

OK. Just think, once you are done with all of this stuff you get to go back to Hawaii. That itself will be good for your health.

Great news. Sending good thoughts and prayers that everything from here on remains in the good column.

Chisue, if I remember correctly you were having pain in one side of your lower back that also radiated down the front of your leg. That's how my hypermobile sacroiliac first presented. It eventually changed to disabling pain in my hip, although tests showed there was nothing wrong with my hip.

If you Google sacroiliac hypermobility, you might find something you can relate to. The biggest thing that helped me was consistently wearing a heel lift in my left leg, which is slightly shorter than my right. (The pain and affected sacroiliac was on the right side.)

Back in November 2003 I woke up in the night in dire pain. Had to go to the ER and then admitted for some tests. Result was I was admitted and had a colon resection. Is that the same as the colon section that you will be having, or is it two different things? I don't remember how long I was in the hospital, but I was told later that I had been in a serious situation. Even with all the problems I've had over time, I've never had an MRI; a fact of which I'm very grateful!

Wishing you the best for your up coming surgery. Aren't we grateful for the good well trained doctors and all the knowledge that they have now? Wasn't like that for my parents and others way back when.

The MRI results are great news. Now I pray your upcoming surgery will be a complete success and you have a rapid recovery.

Chisue, I have been MIA too much in recent months to know what has been going on with your hip, but I wish you all the best with it, and with the upcoming surgery.

Alisande, when my sciatica presents, it is usually on my left side, caused by my right leg being 1/4" shorter than my left. Of course, I am sure that we are doing different things to trigger it, also.

Tami, do you wear a heel lift? It's done wonders for me. I'm not completely out of pain, but what a difference! I have one in every pair of shoes.

Best wishes that your back and hip pain subside and that your colon surgery goes well with a complete recovery.

Chisue, best wishes for a swift recovery!

Gosh, you are all so wonderful to offer your support! Thank you.

Alisande -- Thanks to my two artificial hips (big whoop) my legs are perfectly aligned. My pain doesn't actually 'radiate'. It hits in two places: My right lower back, and just abut where the hip prosthesis ends in my right thigh. I do wear *only* supportive shoes: BOC lace-ups with a steel shank (newly remembered when the MRI 'grabbed' them); and Merrell clogs and sandals. I use the Dr. Scholl's heel pads in my shoes, too. This diagnosis doesn't help with the pain (acute discomfort?), but at least I know that neither the prosthesis nor my bones are the cause. Tylenol and heating pad at night for 30 minutes helps. Sometimes cold helps. I'm trying to keep good posture and not my torso.

Sue_va -- Mine is a tiny 'resection'. It will probably be arthroscopic surgery unless they can't retrieve the bad section through an arthroscopic opening. I have a sigmoid 'carpet' polyp in the same location where one was successfully removed without surgery in 2012. That was benign. Now my internal carpeting has returned, and will be removed surgically, along with the section of colon to which it is attached. It was 5 meters wide in 2012; is 3 meters now. I'm optimistic that this, too, is benign or Stage 1, requiring no further action. (Why would you worry about MRI's? I'm too old to care!)

Lukkiirish -- I was thinking of you and your DH. I was lucky to have 'dodged some bullets', but I am grateful to have learned from you that a less good finding would still leave me with some good options. Thank you.

Jim -- We have refundable tickets to Maui this year. Ridiculously expensive, but...refundable.

chisue, hopefully your measurements are millimeters or centimeters and not meters. (A meter is a tad over 39 inches)

How lucky you are to have a boring check up. I remember the Chinese curse from Flower Drum Song: May you live in interesting times! So boring is good. Best wishes.

You're welcome, I know it was scary, but am so glad you did what was needed and we could be here to coach you through it.

Eeek! Not only did I get my metrics wrong, I said arthroscopic when I meant laparoscopic. (My obstructive 'broadloom' is 33 mm long.)

Good. There's 2.5cm (25mm) to the inch, so about 1.3 inches.

Chisue, good that it's only a small amount.

Alisande, I did when it was really bad, when my kids were in school. I couldn't make it through the winter without a bad bout with it. One of those "you can't sit, you can't stand" kind. Every winter for about 5 years. Then my niece who at the time was a massage therapist, checked my hip height and told me I was 1/4" shorter on the right leg than the left, and told me to put a lift in my shoe. So my solution was a thick piece of fun foam that I replaced as it squished down, and to buy expensive sneakers to wear. I still wear good shoes, but have not had to wear the lift in years. (My kids are now 32 and 29). I have been fortunate. I also see my chiropractor periodically, who is much better than the one I was seeing when I had so much trouble, and don't let it go when it starts to bother me.

The results of your MRI sounds reassuring. I hope your surgery goes well and your recovery is a blink in time.

Saying prayers for a perfect outcome.

Chisue. thanks for explaining the difference between the two colon surgeries, and in such great detail. Who knew that our colons have carpeting! Your positive attitude shines through and will pay off as you go through this upcoming surgery. I think we should all make every effort to learn about whatever is going on with our bodies and health problems.
About my comment re the MRI: you are too old to care? Never! I am somewhat claustrophobic and being pushed into a long (dark?) tube would probably freak me out, and BTW, did I mention that I am 92? I know that you will come smiling through all this, and know that the KTers are here waiting to hear the good news.

Sue_va -- Oh, no, I couldn't do 'the tube' either. I had my tests in a 'wide bore' MRI -- mostly open except for two areas at the sides -- envision a hamburger bun. The facility brags that this is a "Tesla", new in 2014.

I'd asked my MD for an anti-anxiety med before I saw the machine. I had taken one pill before the first of the three tests, but I won't be taking any more! I think I related here that, while I wasn't aware of it having any effect, that pill was too strong for me. Ten hours after taking it, and having had the test, I got up out of bed and went into the kitchen to cut up some strawberries for the next morning's breakfast -- something I never do until morning. I have ZERO memory of doing that and was dumbfounded to see the rather wilted berries in our cereal bowls the next morning. DH confirms that I'd told him I was doing it, and rather testily told him, "They'll keep just fine."