thanks for letting us know you're in the promised land...

i loved my experience in denver, too. and friendly people? boy, howdy! - just don't try to take anyone's parking spot if you go downtown, though, because that IS where that friendly thang seems to come to a rather screeching halt--

realizing you're still waiting for reports to come in and have barely had time to absorb the info yourself, but we'd love to hear more when you're ready to tell us about what they have found in your case in terms of the TOS, and where do you go from here, etc.

and of course, which of the terrible trio you're seeing while there!

i know there is some professional disagreement among the experts about the stats in the general population as to that pesky extra scalene muscle. i've heard ranges anywhere from 33.3% to 99.9% cited from the lips of top TOS docs who are in a position, presumably, to know these things (well, one would hope, anyhow, right?--).

dr. annest told me that he had fully expected to find a scalenus minimus in me when he performed my rib resection in 2005; however, to his great surprise he found none. very hypertrophied anterior and middle scalenes and tough cervical bands putting a very "unusual" dent in my lower plexus, but no extra scalene.

nevertheless, dr. ahn back here in los angeles remains convinced that i DO have an additional scalene muscle in there. to his way of thinking, almost EVERY human on the planet is walking around with this artifact muscle...

it's only in TOS'ers that it causes terrible trouble-- and if i do go forward with more surgery i don't suppose it much matters now, because whoever performs the re-do will go back in and yank the whole scalene shebang O.U.T. over and done. buh bye!

don't want to assume anything but i take it this has been identified as the source of compression in your BP? if so, then i guess it's sort of like finding a capital loss at taxtime. you're not supposed to be happy about it, but you ARE.

so sorry about the dance you've had to do to get to knowledgeable TOS docs and many if not all of us here relate to what you are saying there.

thanks again for posting. now i'm homesick for denver; think i'm right behind you!!!