Hi - I'm new to this site and was so glad to find it and read some of the posts here. Gosh! it's such a felief to find people who are going thru what i've been thru. I was just dx with bilateral TOS in Jan of this year after a long 3+ year battle. was originally dx with c-5 c-6 buldging discs and CTS. have been thru multiple testing, doctors, MRI, EMG, CT surgery, injections, trigger points, cervical traction, pain stimulator, pain management, psychiatry, pt, pt and more pt.

I'm very undecided on surgery. should i or not? very scared. My injury is to the right side which effects my entire neck, shoulder arm and hand but in the beginning when i first started gioing to PT i had an immediate onset of symptoms on my left side. my left side has not been related to my WC claim as of yet, My vasc surgeon wants to do the left side first to try to save it where i would atleast have 1 good arm, I've had my vasc surg and my neuro both tell me that there's a good chance my right arm will not get better even if i have the surgery. Yikes! I can seem to even think clearly enough on what to do. it seems that everything i've done to try and get better i've taken 2 steps back and what if my left is worse after surgery?? Need to know from anyone out there about this surgery. How do you feel? How's the pain now? What's the recovery time? I'd love to hear from someone who's been dx with this after suffering with it for a few years such as me and then who had the surgery and how they feel now. Also, migranes !! They are getting worse - almost went to the ER last week was in bed for 4 days. They are causing extreme pain on the right side above my eyebrow, right jaw area, and circumference around my right ear. I feel that i need some kind of numbing cream or pain patch on that area it could help.

Any suggestions are welcome! Thanks and cant wait to hear from anyone!

hello -
come on down to the TOS forum- we have plenty of support and info there.
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/forumdisplay.php?f=24

useful links & info -
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/showthread.php?t=84

Welcome tdinant!