over the past few weeks my lower back has begun to hurt pretty bad. I was getting pain right at the base of my spine that began shooting down into my legs. figured it was time to test drive that health insurance and got it checked out. the doctors thought was a pinched cyatic nerve, but in order to rule out anything larger, they did some spinal xrays. they didnt like the looks of them, and now I am headed in for an MRI probably next week. yeah... heres the films.

A full view of the spine. The red grease pencil line is a plumb line down the middle from nose to pelvis. At the furthest point, my spine is 23mm off of center. The first rib vertebrae is really out of place as well.

As far as the lower section, where most of the pain is, its pretty obvious why it hurts, the spine comes off the pelvis at a pretty sharp angle.

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