About 1965 at age 15, I was a passenger in a car accident. I received damage to most of the left side of my brain and also the brain stem. I 1998 I found I had had a Traumatic Brain Injury.
Fast forward to 18 months ago (approx). While playing with my granddaughter she pulled and twisted my head resulting in major pain and a crunching sound.
I have been telling various doctors for the last 40 odd years that when I turn my head right or left a few degrees I start getting a headache but until this latest incident was not taken seriously. Since this incident, and telling my doctor that it sounds like chewing on gristle when I turn My head, I had an MRI which showed the disc at c5-6 was pressing on the spinal cord.
After the car accident I was diagnosed (among a multitude of other things)with bilateral tremors thought, at that time, to be genetically related. There had been no other occurrences of tremors in any of my predecessors.
My questions are, could these tremors and headaches have been caused by disc herniation and, because of the elapsed time, could a disc replacement or fusion make a difference?
Thank you for your response and for this so helpful forum.