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Join Date: Aug 2006
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Magnate
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 2,871
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Originally Posted by mamakasper
Hi. This looks like a great forum. I am desperate for information... I have two quick questions, and then a long intro story...
Do any of you ever get redness in your hands? I have had it for a while, off and on, and I thought it was a rash, but now I am wondering if it is related to this TOS stuff.
I can't believe how relieved I feel to have a diagnosis. There is a reason for all these things that are going wrong... I thought I was losing my mind. I was even dropping things. Like dropping a cup of tea... It was almost like I forgot I was holding it. The blood vessels in my hands even started popping out (very attractive...). I also get the worst headaches, to the point of vomiting... Lots of other symptoms, and I'm just now starting to realize how many of them could be related to TOS.
I'm so mad at my chiro for treating me all year long without knowing exactly what was wrong, especially since I wasn't really getting any better...
Thanks for letting me tell my story.
I look forward to posting on this forum!
Shannon
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Hi Shannon, Oh so many years ago we did the short term chiro help for my daughter before her diagx. In fact the w/c doc that first treated her knew what was going on and did not want to let us know how serious.
We had to get an attorney and fight. The redness could be the extra blood into the hands and compresions do not let it flow out well. I have this a lot, especially driving.
The cup of tea, or holding a can of soda etc being dropped: there is an explanation for that.
If you lose sensation in the sensory nerves, you can not feel the cup. The only way your mind has to know it is there is to "see" it, and the motor nerves will pick it up. When your eyes move away, the sensory nerves not realizing it is in your hand let the grasp loosen and WHOOPS.
The headaches to vomit I had triggers. They are not migrains traditionally, Mine are cervogenic in nature. Meaning that the spasms from the neck and trapizus across the shoulder try to protect inflamed nerves and wrap around in spasms. Especially you can feel trigger points; where the enrve inserts into the muscle it is so tender, but your press to release the spasms.
I had a knot in the base of my skull that flared for four years 24/7 headpains that flared to ER level. My last Epidural spine injection I was going into a huge flare with tears and had the anestiaologist feel the know the path of pain. He injected my C/5 whre the hump in on the upper back and directed the deproMedrol to that area. That was the last I ever had that flare, and the last I ever was in ER for pain.
My daughter had two failed surgeries as she had a lot of problems with scar tissue on the nerves, and then a clean up with the nerves wrapped in gortex, pericardial patch material did not help. She did not have an extra rib, they did remove the first rib and scalenes muscel removed. There was a lot of permanant nerve damage, The relief from the cleanup and surgeries were short lived.
I never had surgery (whiplash strain) and was diagx and off work right after my car accident. Surgery is not an option, I accomadate and some medications. I only work part/ part time.
If you do have an extra rib do not let them say that is why you got TOS. It may have been an anomolie you had, but for the accident it would not have caused TOS. It did not coincidently develope the syptoms the time of the accident.
Welcome to the forum, some of us here are going on ten eleven years or more on the forum, and longer dealing with TOS.
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