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Hello all,

This is my first post to this site! What brought me here is a year and a half of ups and downs regarding my health. I'm just wanting some opions as it seems doctors are just not giving me the information I need.

I'm in the National Guard so I do not have to deal with military doctors, but rather have different insurance that allows me to see who I want. So this might help me in the long run.

It all started around August of 2011 when I started experiencing floating type feelings, dizziness, and muscle twitches in my left front neck and left chest. This would normally only be during exercise and would subside around 30 min afterwards. November rolls around and I am doing some combatives training where I tweak my neck quite badly. From this point I start having really bad headaches and the same dizziness feelings, floating, ect not just during exericise but at random times in different positions such as sitting in a car.

Fast forward to Jan 2012 and it gets so extreme I have to fall out during physcial training. I exeperience this same dizziness, short of breath, ect. At this point I'm also experiencing the headaches really badly as well.

At this point I go see the doctor and assuming the worst he sends me to the cardiologist where they do a number of tests that come back normal. Then he refers me to a nuero who within 5 mins says I'm having migranes and prescribes me migrane meds that do nothing.

One day in March I'm sitting in work and press on my left shoulder trigger point that has been hurting very badly. I feel this sharp pain that shoots up my neck into my head which is the muscle I strained when I tweaked my neck. I go back to the doctor and a MRI is done. I have very mild bulging at c5-c6-c7 and he has me start physical therapy on the neck. I noticed very little progress. From Jan until now my exericise has been at bare minimum.

Frustrated I try doing chiropratic care, with muscle stem and massage therapy. This helped the most but its temparory and they all notice my left shoulder winging badly. At this point my headaches are gone but I still get the neck, shoulder pain, dizziness, vertigo floating, and now pain has wrapped around to my serratos anterior and left chest wall badly. I have trouble breathing as my serratos anterior, chest, and neck muscles get VERY tight. I also have trouble swallowing in this neck region when the muscles tighten.

I go back to the doctor and he looks at my shoulder. He sends me to a sports doc and he has a MRI done with EMG. Both are normal so he thinks I have TOS. He has me start PT and I have been on it ever since. I have had zero progress and have been doing OT with it for 2 weeks now.

I still experience many of these issues and am very sick of them. I am and have been very active and am only 26. I commission to be an officer in May need answers asap!

Has anyone experienced these issues with TOS? Any help would be appreciated!