[QUOTE=knowledge hungry;977101]Need this explained so I can understand. After I heard the words, "You have severe damage", almost everything else was a blur. I am female, 5 ft tall, 120 pounds, and almost 60. I have been doing heavy lifting at work for 3 years, with lots of repetitive motions and reaching up over my head all day. I have filed a workers comp claim-has not yet been approved. Doc is talking about going through the front of my neck to fix if pain and numbness in arm does not subside. Hard to process all of this......




Occiput to T4 evaluated in the sagittal plane. Mild to moderate disc space narrowing at the c5-c6 level. The craniocervical junction, cervical thoracic junction are normal in appearance.


Hi Knowledge hungry welcome to neuro talk, I have the same thing at my c6-c7 and the pain was unbearable with out the surgery I decided to go the physio route and medication it has been a long journey but I am doing fairly well on most days. My med regiment is Lyrica 450mg day, cymbalta 120mg a day, oxyneo 40mg a day and percacet 5mg for break through up to 3 times a day, meditation at least 40min a day and I might add I rolled my eyes at my specialist about that one and well she was right. I also have exercises that the pain team layed out for me that I do every single day and wow I am now living I have most of my life back. If I can be of any help just let me know.