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Originally Posted by diane54
Hi
My name is Diane. I live in Seattle. Been struggling for the last year and a half or so.
I've never had chronic pain before and this is wearing me down. I work 8-10 hours per day as a medical transcriptionist and this sure makes it hard to my job.
Would like some advice on the TOS surgery. I'm willing to give it a try if it will give me some relief. I feel confident in the surgeon. If you want his name, private message me. I'm getting a repeat scalene block this week to run that test again. My diagnosis is "true neurogenic TOS". He wants to go in under the armpit.
thanks for any advice and look forward to hearing from some new TOS friends!
Diane
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Hi Diane,
I think that your job as a med transc is the contributing factor to the pain. If you have the surgery it is likely you will still have the issues.
Because the blocks help I would do some consideration. First consider w/c as the treatment and work modification. You need to rest the nerves. When you had the blocks and the medication rested the nerves you felt better.
If you have TOS surgery it will open the outlet area the nerves run from the cervical spine into the area from the collar bone, shoulder, chest and arm to the hands.
But reusing your hands to key and work again is a new injury every day, I was 50 and had to reinvent myself. My key thing to reducing to live-able pain was that I was off work for the knee and back injuries. That rested my arm nerves too.
I have dragon, work from home. most computer work is pleasure anymore.
My greatest reduction was a well placed epidural in the c-5 hump.
I hope you can find reduced pain and help.
Dianne