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  • DarcyBee
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    Thanks so much for your comments Dr. Corenman. I was able to get in to see a neurosurgeon yesterday. He would like to do a 2 disc replacement surgery (C6 and C7), and if I am not a good candidate anatomically, ACDF. He said I could wait if I wanted to and have injections. I have radicuopathy I’m feeling ready for surgery, because it’s been so long and getting worse and worse. I will ask him about the shoulder as well. I’m going to seek a second opinion before I make the decision for surgery.

    I really appreciate you spending time to reply to my post! Thank you!!!

    DarcyBee
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    One more thing – my fingers/hand tingle. All of them, sometimes just one or two, sometimes all of them. this usually goes with pain going down the outside of my arm. A gnawing pain. All of my symptoms have been around for about 20 years, slowly progressing except for the chest pain and the migraines/vomiting – those are new this year.

    DarcyBee
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    I should mention I have constant grinding pain that gets worse when I move my my arm on top of my right shoulder, and into the right side of my neck. I have dull aching pain in my bicep area and on top of my shoulder that gets worse when I write. Arm/hand strength on my right side is very much weakened, even though it is my dominant arm. I have had on and off “chest pains” which have been checked thoroughly (once) by the emergency room with no known cause – not heart related. I have muscle spasms in my legs and feet at night. Regular muscle spasms in my abdominal area muscles that will stop me from exercising.

    I have been sitting at a desk for many years, just recently got a sit/stand convertible desk.

    My right hand is loosing coordination. Picking up coins, opening small packages, typing and handwriting continue to decline.

    My pain sometimes wakes me up at night. It gets worse after a day at the office, or trying to do things with my right hand (cooking, folding)

    The pain in my shoulder/neck is greatly relieved with my arm on top of my head. I spend a lot of time resting like this, and have wondered if I could make some sort of hat to balance it there. :-) I found that wearing a hard “aspen” collar relieves pain in my neck and somewhat my arm, and I wear one occasionally at night. I am very worried about sleeping wrong. I have special cervical pillows with indentations, etc. If I sleep “wrong” it’s not a good thing – my next day is wrecked with pain.

    Sometimes I get pain low in my neck where it attaches to my back. This can be almost a stabbing type pain. I have this very often when take just a muscle relaxer and no norco.

    I have pain in my throat on the right like there is something stuck there. It almost feels like someone is poking a stick from the inside of the right side toward my throat. Sometimes my voice goes hoarse and it hurts to talk.

    I have intense muscle spasms in my neck and collarbone, trapezoid area that never go away (for the last 15 years). Massage makes them feel a little better, but it’s pretty superficial and doesn’t last. I can feel the muscles deep in there are very tight. (This is the same area where I have the grinding pain).

    My feet have felt clumsy for the last year or two. I no longer want to wear any high heel. Flats only. I feel very uneasy on ladders lately.

    I feel dizzy sometime when standing and this comes and goes.

    I have had headaches – migraines that I have never had before. Really bad headaches around my right eye, with vomiting (very little warning – and “projectile” :-/ Sorry.

    I am 49 years old. I manage pain with cucumurin (concentrated turmeric), ibuprofen, muscle relaxers and norco (in that order. I drink more alcohol than I should, and take antidepressants and anti anxiety medication.

    I’ve been told in the past after an MRI in 2006 – I have bulging discs and some arthritis and sent to PT, which took a lot of time, and didn’t do anything except feel slightly better after the massage part.

    After that, I’ve been given muscle relaxers and pain pills (I don’t take every day – mostly at night). I was told to call my GP when I loose control of my bladder and/or bowels… he said then they could do surgery. Also that it was probably a torn rotator cuff and I would need surgery for that soon.

    I changed my doctor, this doctor did an xray and MRI (results above) and said I didn’t have to wait until I loose control of my bladder/bowels before they could do something besides the pills to control the pain (epidural shots or possibly surgery).

    I see the neurosurgeon January 4. Any ideas, thoughts, comments, etc would be welcome. I am a nervous wreck, and hurting a lot. I’m trying to educate myself, and prepare myself for what might come next.

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