Thanks _ i will look into it. It's interesting isn't it, when the dr's say there is no relationship between two symptoms that in your heart you know are related....
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Originally Posted by sbvcrn
Hi
To start with I am not a doctor, and I do no mean to cause you more anxiety.
After an auto accident, I developed many of the jerks, etc. you are mentioning, I also noticed my neck slowing tilting to the side...in fact if i laid down on a flat surface and relaxed my neck it would slowly move itself to the right side. Well bottom line, in addition to PN (which begun two years after the above) I have cervical dystonia, aka torticollis. (I cant help but wonder if somehow these two problems are related..but the neuro's I have seen said "no"). The dystonia is caused by a problem in the basal ganglia...can be genetic (starts early), caused by some medications, idiopathic, and secondary to head trauma (accidents). So if you research this and it at all seems like what you may possibly have, you need to see a MDS (movement disorder specialist neurologist) not just a regular, or peripheral neuropathy neurologist. Many, many neurologists even are not familar with dystonia.
Good luck...hope you dont have it, pn is enough.  |