Hello, just signed up today.

34, female, American living in Germany for 7 years. Married, no children, 1 cat.

Severe left arm pain in Dec last year developed into sporadic pain but more and more weakness. All neuro tests in Jan and Feb were normal. MRI of cervical neck in March showed 2 herniations at C5/C6 and C6/C7, with some compression but according to the moment I was in the MRI, not enough compression to cause my left arm problems. 8-Apr, a new abnormal EMG showing fasciculations, increased action potentials, positive waves in my deltoid and clinical weakness grade 4/5 gave me the diagnosis of plexus neuritis/shoulder neuralgic amyotrophy. Neuro does not think my arm problems are coming from my spine since the herniation is too low for the places I'm experiencing issues and my reflexes are normal.

Started prednisone last week, starting to taper off and started gabapentin today.

I joined here to reach out to other members with neuritis or neuropathy with questions, ask for opinions....as I have lots! I'm confused and have fears I'm trying to overcome.

I appreciate everyone's time! I will of course chime in to support where I can!

Thanks!
PS: my name: twitchwitch
is because all of this started with twitching and a BFS diagnosis 2 years ago. I'm not a witch, just thought it sounded funny.