foxylady

I got ill back in 1995 after a whiplash injury. My husband of the time had beaten me and i got knocked onto the bed face down, and my head jerked back and made a really loud crack noise. since then i have been seriously ill, and no-one knows why.

if i do anything my neck goes rock hard, tight and I get dizzy/faint-feeling, go all hot, flushed and have to sit down or lay down for days. my feet go numb, although they are partly numb all the time.

From MRI scan in 2014, I have:

C5/C6 – osteophytic disc changes with mild degenerative narrowing of both the lateral recesses and mild degenerative narrowing of both C5 neural exit foramen.

C6/C7 – osteophytic disc changes with moderate degenerate narrowing of both the C6 neural exit foramen.

At L3 L4 – moderate degenerative narrowing of both lateral recesses with.due to an annular disc bulge, facet joint degenerative changes and ligamentum flavum hypertrophy.

L4 L5 – small focal posterior annular tear. moderate narrowing of both the lateral recesses due to annular disc bulge and ligamentum flavum hypertrophy. minimal impingement on the right L5 nerve root and potential for dynamic positional impingement on left L5 nerve root.

L5 S1 – small focal posterior annular tear with moderate disc posterior central prolapse or background mild annular disc bulge. there is narrowing of both lateral recesses, mild facet joint degenerative changes.

multi level benign vertebral body haemangiomas.
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2016 MRI

C3/4, C4/5, C5/6 – mild osteophyte/disc bulging and bilateral facet joint degenerative changes.

C5/6 – moderate generalised osteophyte/disc bulging. mild facet joint degenerative changes, mild indentation of the anterior thecal sac.

C6/7 – MOderate generalised osteophyte/disc bulging. Encroachment on the exit foramena bilaterally, more on right.

L2/3 – disc dehydration and mild generalised disc bulging

L3/4 – Moderate generalised disc bulging and bilateral facet joint degenerative changes.

L4/5 – Moderate generalised disc bulging and mild facet joint degenerative changes.

L5/S1 – Moderate generalised disc bulging with a broad-based left posterolateral disc protrusion. Mild indentation the the anterior thecal sac. mild facet joint degenerative changes

The NHS refuse to operate on me, despite increasingly serious symptoms.

I have been lied to by all the Neurosurgeons I’ve seen, they all told me I didn’t have any nerve compression, didn’t have any Spinal Cord Compression, but I have gone to the Parliamentary & health Ombudsman to get the truth, and I do, I have- Stenosis. Compression of the Spinal Cord and Nerves.

I have faint-ness attacks, I don’t pass out but nearly do. I cannot carry anything much at all without it giving me dead hands and arms, even though I have had both Carpal Tunnels operated on to decompress them. I get electric shock-type pains down arms and legs, have severe pain in neck 24/7, muscles are tight, numbness in feet, bladder problems, life-threatening drops in blood pressure, blood pressure is different in my arms showing blood flow restriction, I cannot even hoover up any more as bending brings on agonising pain,neck gives me pain in centre of back too from muscle spasms, leaning forward is a problem to me, I get hot, flushed and cheeks go hot and red, it is blood flow restricted causing that I think? My arms and legs go weak, my legs sometimes give way.