i was losing feeling and functionality in my left hand and arm. for me, chiropractic worked very well. i was frankly quite shocked it did anything at all. there was nerve damage i was unaware of that did not show up on anything.

I would get your MRI reports and look at them yourself. I got mine and would search the terminology on the websites. You always should get copies of every test. I was told when my back went out nothing was there. I got the report and was what is he talking about--I had all kinds of degeneration and bulging discs. I found out later that I had a slipped vertebrae which someone told me later that is the report but you have to know the terms. The dr never mentioned that either!!

Spinal stenosis can cause a lot of issues and disc degeneration. I have arm and hand pain all the time from this from my neck. Oh I too have muscle wasting in my hand which a dr said can be from the neck or the ulnar nerve I have pinched somewhat.

What did he do? I'm not sure what a chiropractic is at all. I just know physios.. and doctors.. (would rather not)

There is another problem with MRI's. It's difficult to get them done in a standing position, which might show where the problem is, if there is one.

This is exactly right, according to John Bergman, and it just makes sense. Your spine will be different lying down than standing or sitting. But all MRIs are taken lying down, as far as I know.
Ron

there are places that do stand up mri's

Hi, I've just got my old test results from 2006. MRI both with and without contrast agent, done on the entire upper body part including shoulders and both hands, found nothing. Spinal fluid showed nothing. EMG found denervation in my right hand. Vitamin B12 was at 352 ng/l. Was that too low? The doctors didn't bother with that and suspected plexus neurosis or neuropathy.

As for other results, Natrium was on the lower reference end.

I've found a new, good GP, she has a lot of experience, and she teaches at the university here. She spent 45 minutes with me, asking a lot of good questions. She did think about potential B12 deficiency herself. She has seen someone with similar symptoms caused by B12 deficiency, a woman misdiagnosed by neurologists, whose both hands were damaged, so she ordered me to have a B12 test, which I'm gonna do next week. I feel I'm in better hands now.

Aneczka

Not sure if this would apply to your issues but I was able to get my local hospitals imaging dept. to do a mri with "extension & flexion" images of my neck and mine showed "near abutment" of the spinal cord at 3 levels....which I believe is causing my pain especially at night when I sleep.
I was told that typically those images are done on CT scans......found this protocol by a rheumatologist site who treats Fibro patients and he discovered that many of his patients had compression of their spinal cords that caused many of their symptoms.......it is interesting that this imaging is not a typical protocol.....why does it take a patient to have to discover what is possibly causing their issues ??

chloecasey

Because many doctors became doctors only because their parents wanted them to? It looks like. Thanks for your input Chloe, I will keep it in mind. Maybe I should go and see a good orthopedic? I was planning to, but cannot do it all in one week Anyway, I will keep that in mind.

Like those doctors years ago who told me to take antidepressants, without doing any blood test whatsoever. I am severely damaged now, because they didn't bother to check properly.