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Dr Corenman,
Thank you so very much. You sorted out the surgeries spot on. I had felt like the poster was just too much and it made things worse. At any rate can only move forward. I do have terrible pain in the throat radiating to the front and down the chest but they did not see infection on the soft tissue CT. So perhaps it is the esophagus.

I will look for another surgeon who is willing to sort this out for me.

Maybe I will have to make a trip to Colorado. We are sure very fortunate to have you educate and answer our questions.

Thanks for the support!
Mary

Thank you very much Dr. Corenman for the quick reply.

So I had an MRI of my cervical on 4/13/17, which was like two days before the squat episode that resulted in the Tspine and lumbar issue. They then did lumbar and Tspine on 4/23/17 as a result of that new pain from the squat.

Then unfortunately as I mentioned two weeks ago, while still reeling from the squat pain, I stood up and it felt like something slipped more in tspine, right behind/below the sternum, and radiated around the chest. But if I try to stand up, I seem weak from about the bottom of the ribs/Tspine to the belly button/pelvis. The are we kind of consider the small or our back?

If I sit, I note I am weak from this area too, and it definitely radiates down the back, I’d say on both sides of the spinal column/down the center, around the belly, and then down through the pelvis and into the legs and other areas I mention.

On these 4/23/17 scans they said they did not really see anything, on the Tspine or Lumbar, which kind of made me wonder as they really didn’t mention much about the T7/T8 bulge or being offset, as they did on images in prior years.

They also did not mention any changes in the lumbar, which was also kind of odd to me too as they didn’t even mention an issue with the L4 nerve impingement that we also knew about previously but that pain is nothing like what I am dealing with. That pain didn’t stop me from activity at all. Only flared once in a while. I understand d different radiologist read things differently.

Forgive me if I am confusing, lately pain is not being my friend.. :-)

So are you thinking I should push to have another MRi of the Tspine since I felt something more slip there two weeks ago and even worse? I know they worry about too much radiation, but argh. What does one do?.

As for the cervical, I did notice yesterday that as this Tpsine has worsened, if i move my neck at all, I now have pain radiating from neck to the chest, both shoulders now and down inbetween the shoulder blades but I assumed that might be spasms from the tspine. Just makes sense to me if something was now out in the Tspine/lumbar the neck was going to give me more trouble,a nd of course not safe.

Thank you
Mary