Hi guys,
this seems to be a very important topic for us!

I would like to remind you that thoracic outlet ends with syndrome......
and a syndrome is defined as ..................
from Wikipedia.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syndrome

In medicine and psychology, the term syndrome refers to the association of several clinically recognizable features, signs (discovered by a physician), symptoms (reported by the patient), phenomena or characteristics which often occur together, so that the presence of one feature alerts the physician to the presence of the others. In recent decades the term has been used outside of medicine to refer to a combination of phenomena seen in association.

http://www.medterms.com/script/main/...rticlekey=5613


http://www.answers.com/topic/syndrome?cat=health

just a thought to consider.....we all experience things in our own way and I pretty much guarantee that some of us will have similar symptoms and others totally different ones that characterize the basis of our SYNDROME.

In saying that there may be a symptom of tos that nobody has seen before and one of us has it. It does not mean it is not part of the syndrome........

The whole point of this is that due to how nerves and vessels grow in our own vessel (so to speak-- our body) and the nature of HOW we got our tos we will all have different symptoms....hence the word SYNDROME.

I lifted a patient up from a toilet and got my tos (both vascular and neurological likely due to a brachial plexus stretch and possibly tear), others have only vascular, others have only neurological, others get RSD, so we are all similar but rarely the same. We each have different pain levels, we each have different symptoms that usually take the many many physicians we seek help from a long time to put together our SYMPTOMS TO DISCOVER OUR SYNDROME.

ok off my soapbox.

oh sorry back on soapbox.......
and how can one person definitively say that Hashimotos is not related to a SYNDROME. Doctors PRACTICE medicine they do not know all and asking three doctors who are not all of the same specialty does NOT qualify as a sufficient survey in my clinical mind......

Yes other problems we have will interact with our syndrome. I think that MY depression is related to my five years of chronic pain so part of MY syndrome.......and if you have hashimotos it will add to your SYNDROME.


I do respect all opinions!!

I accept all and help all no matter who or what we are or suffer from.

Thanks to all......may we all deal with our own symptoms of this syndrome in the best way possible!

love and hugs to all,
Victoria

I couldn't have said it better myself Victoria!!!