Hi All
I would really love some advice...I was beginning think I'd got to the bottom of my symptoms when my neck mri came back showing 3 bulging discs therefore cervical radiculopathy. However, I'm now not sure this is actually causing my symptoms. 90% of my pain and pins and needles are in my RIGHT hand, arm, shoulder and SCM/scalene area, but the mri showed bulging was worse on the LEFT. Also according to the mri the worst bulge is C5-6 but my worst p+n are in my little and ring finger and on the ulnar side of my forearm, so not the C6 nerve root dermatome.

I've read that bulging discs are common in many people who don't have any pain, so is it possible that cervical radiculopathy is not my problem at all, but that it is in fact tos as I long suspected?

I've been referred to a general neurologist on the NHS (I'm in London) in a month's time, but I'm getting increasingly desperate and unable to cope with the pain.

Any advice about differentiating between radiculopathy and tos would be greatly appreciated! Many many thanks, Kathryn