[Haute Mess]

I saw the vascular surgeon today (referred from neuro) and she didn’t perform any tests or examination; just asked me a bunch of questions. I was diagnosed with TOS but she thinks its neuro because it couldn’t be arterial – I still have all my fingers – or venous - my arm hasn’t swelled 5x its normal size. So I would have to have the worst case symptoms to be positive? There is no such thing as having some or slight symptoms?

She said she could remove my large cervical rib (her words were: “This is a fun surgery”) but cannot guarantee that my rib is what is actually causing problems. So I follow up after I see ortho and have my EMG and try PT (from someone who is familiar with TOS, I made sure of that). Ok, fair enough. Nothing wrong with being conservative but I just feel like she didn’t do enough to check to see if I had vascular problems.