Hi Tomyo,

I have not had surgery - my degeneration is too great and my heart will not take anaesthetics - but I have just found out after a Hospital stay (this is the reason I've not been here to answer your Posts before now, sorry) and MRI that my neck is worse than thought. One Spinal Cord Compression turns out to be 3 at 5, 6 and 8, causing numbness down my left arm and into my middle, ring and pinky fingers. I have excruciating pain referred from my neck into my upper right arm and terrible weakness in both.

From the Lumbar area I get numbness, weakness and referred pain to below the inside of my left knee. I have numbness in my groin exacerbating the issues I have from Radiotherapy burning everything up when I had Colorectal cancer.

Somewhat like you, I am partially bisected, left mainly numb, right pain from my spinal injuries. My Neurological Hypersensitivity is bodywide and the needle stab pains of Neuropathy are confined to feet/legs and hands.

While our situation is not exactly the same, I do understand what you are going through.

I tried Eastern Acupuncture on my neck a while ago and it gave me increased range of movement. The idea is to have weekly sessions to achieve best results. I could not continue as I lost my ability to drive due to sight issues.

As for a SCS, we have an active Forum here:

http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/forum118.html

Our Members, and the Stickies and Threads, there will give you lots of advice and information.

Pain Management can open the door to all sorts of treatments from Talking Therapies (helpful to many), through different meds to Infusions like Lidocaine and Ketamine. My life would be totally unbearable without my PM Team.

Follow every Path open to you to achieve any improvement in your condition. I am sorry you have come to be like this in the first place.

Dave.