I'm in extreme pain from my neck to my shoulder, left arm, arm pit, forearm,and hand is completely numb. It is starting to go down the right side. I have had a lot of PT, pain meds, nothing is helping and keeps getting worse. I'm supposed to be going in for a Steroid shot in my C6-C7 this week. I can not even move, laying still is the only thing that gives me a but of relief. I'm at a loss. Should I call my Ortho Dr. back to tell him that I can no longer move my arm? Could the herniations have gotten worse? Thank you for any help.

Not sure if you saw my post on your new members thread.

By any chance do you have a MRI written report to share, the spinal forum would be best to post that info.

If this could possibly be related to repetitive motion injury (desk work, overhead, heavy lifting, prior whiplash etc)- you might want to read on our thoracic outlet syndrome forum also.
C spine symptoms can be very similar to TOS symptoms, and possible to have both.
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/forum24.html


Yes, I thing you should call the dr and make sure they know what is happening..

Without knowing anything about your problem, in general problems affecting the C5 and/or C6 roots can affect among others, the deltoid, parts of the rotator cuff muscles and biceps (list not complete). So yes, should function could be trashed. You need to discuss this with your ortho today!

Hi Dubious,

I just wanted to let you know that Blue Herron did end up making contact with Doctor immediately. They've updated over on New Members Forum.