Tarlov Cyst, Maigne’s Syndrome and Back Pain

My Journey… While this may seem off-topic, those suffering debilitating pain may find value in my experience the past 3 years, both physically and mental-emotionally. I have now vastly improved, with remaining symptoms being mostly and usually just irritating, comparatively. (See 2023 update below). I’m going to try to give practical advice and a time-line of events of what happened and what I learned. These are mostly from posts I made in the Tarlov Society of Canada facebook group. (This is NOT medical advice, do not take it to be such. It’s an accounting of my journey through back and perineal pain.) Six crucial learnings are… 1) Imaging is not diagnosis, and may be meaningless to symptoms That things found …