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I was told I have 2 her. disc,one was tiny other was small,I have lots of pain.Queistion does it matter on the size of the herniation to have so much pain

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The herniated or bulging discs may or may not be causing the pain; so many times the size of the disc doesn’t necessarily correlate with the patient’s symptoms.  The only way to tell if a disc is causing the pain is to get a selective nerve root block at that level (numb the spinal nerve under x-ray) to see if this takes the pain away. 

Christopher J. Centeno, M.D