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I saw this on the internet and I have been having SI problems and wanted to share stories with others that have the same problems. A lot of people who don't have these problems dont't understand the pain and frustration. Sharon

Follow thru with surgery?

After a particularly painful recurrence of arm & shoulder pain since herniating a cervical disc 8+ years ago, I located a highly respected minimally invasive surgeon. He says I'm a candidate for a minimally invasive foraminotomy on my C6-C7 correlating with my symptoms. That was a few weeks ago. Now I'm scheduled for surgery (out of state) and my symptoms have eased significantly with the exception of some tingling and numbness. Trying to figure out if I should go thru with it or wait. This has been my off & on pattern. Symptoms return. I do everything but surgery and eventually get better.

I had cervical radiculopathy and it gets worse unless you do physical therapy

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Originally Posted by Carolan (Post 501784)

Good Morning,
I Found this site by doing a search on Google. I too have spine issues. In 1992 I had a disc rupture with spinal cord compression (severe) at the C5-C6 level after an accident which they fused. In 2004 they found that the discs above and below were failing plus interior bone spur again with spinal cord involvement. The neuro-surgeon basically rebuilt my neck with cadavior bone and titanium pins from C1-T2. Since that time I have had multiple problems with my hands, shoulders and fingers and have been diagnoised with Cervical Radiculopathy.

I am curious if anyone else is has or is experiencing GI Problems that they can't explain? I have too many ER visits with no diagnosis even after CT Scans etc. They did say things weren't moving well and they did find a small amount of blood.

Personally I am 50 years old engaged to a wonderful and patient man and have three four legged children.

So glad your here and that I found this site.

What pain medication do you take for your problem? I have the same Dx. Pain meds have proven to be addictive yet a Godsend in giving me a pain free life that I feel everyone deserves. Aloha from Hawaii

Hello Curious from pap5

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Originally Posted by Curious (Post 450556)

:Wave-Hello:

It looks like we have a whole bunch of new members here. :yahoo:

Well, I'm not happy you have the need for us, but happy that you found us. :D

2 of us Mods, Bobbi and I have spine issues. If we can be of any help navigating around here, let us know.

Let's all get to know each other. How did you find NT? I'll think of more questions. Y'all think of some too.

Time to get get the kiddos to school. See ya later.

Curious

Hi,

I originally joined NeuroTalk back in August and was trying to make contact with anyone who had recent spine surgery for spondylolisthesis (L5/S1) with
severe nerve compression in the L5 root. The L5 vertebrea got fractured at some point (I'm not sure how) and, over the years I've developed a grade II slippage that has begun to damage a nerve. It is painful, but it's not the pain I want to manage....it's the actual nerve damage. (I'm now trying decompression therapy with a chiropracter).
Anyway, my neurosurgeon says I am a candidate for spinal fusion of the L5/S1 vertebra. Supposedly, if successful, the outcome will be relief of the nerve pressure and hopefully allow my right leg to return to normal. I've got some muscle issues now because the nerve is not transmitting the proper signals to the calf muscle...and this condition just worsen's with time. If you or a member you know of, had this condition, I hope you will respond when you have time.

Pap5 (63 year old kid, who still was playing baseball with the oldtimers until
the injury set me back over a year ago.)

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Originally Posted by Curious (Post 450556)

[B][SIZE="3"][SIZE="[SIZE="5"]Howdy. Thanks for having me here. My wife is a regular over on the CRPS thread so I wandered over here. Not really sure how or when my back gave out. Its been a long slow process over the years. Seems I caught a good case of rheumitory arthritis long ago. None of the medicines work on me so I just get a bit slower every day. Now it seems to me its moved to my spine. My last MRI shows multible bulges and bone spurs on several disk as well as curviture of the spine right to left. The neurosurgen says surgery would only make it worse. So now I see a pain doc once a month. He's got me on morphine sulfate 15 mg every 8 hours and endocet 10/325 every 8 hours. Predisone 10 mg twice a day and nerotin 600mg every night. This is just no life. I remember all too well the joys of running and caving most every week end. Now all I do is piddle around the house. But as bad as I think I hurt, I know it could be worse. I see it every day with my wife. She has CRPS and is in real pain all day every day. But Im so glad you all are here and I read the post most every day. Hopefully everyone will be as pain free as possable with this cold wet weather moving in. Mike in Tennesse