“Is there ever unexplainable pain or is there always a reason for the pain? My pain is lower in my neck than the discomfort I experienced before the surgery and there’s also a stabbing near the fusion, but I describe it as a deep, sharp constant pain. Is it possible the pain is imagined or in my head? Maybe neuropathic pain”?
There generally is a source found for for pain 99% of the time. There are some occasions that pain is neuropathic or generated by injured nerves that are not compressed. The most common neuropathic pain is peripheral neuropathy (see website) but that disorder follows a pattern that can be identified. Atypical neuropathy cannot be identified by known available testing.
Most likely, there is a heretofore unidentified source of your neck pain.
I do see patients from all over the USA. You would have to talk to my nurses if your insurance would be covered here. I am an idiot-savant. I am good at fixing people but I cannot understand the insurance game. Thank God for my nurses!
Dr. Corenman
Donald Corenman, MD, DC is a highly-regarded spine surgeon, considered an expert in the area of neck and back pain. Trained as both a Medical Doctor and Doctor of Chiropractic, Dr. Corenman earned academic appointments as Clinical Assistant Professor and Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, and his research on spine surgery and rehabilitation has resulted in the publication of multiple peer-reviewed articles and two books.