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@rnlorena No apologies, please. You deserve to be heard and you stayed on the topic of your spine. The electric shock you described may be caused by bone spurs contacting the spinal cord because of the central canal stenosis. I could reproduce that and send an electric shock down my entire body if I bent my neck forward. This was of course before my stenosis was surgically corrected. Cervical central canal stenosis can send pain to your lower body and legs, and if a surgeon tells you this is not possible, then they have missed something. I hear this a lot from patients and I heard that too. My surgeon at Mayo Rochester knew better.
I think a consult at Mayo is an excellent idea and it sounds like Jacksonville may be convenient for you. I recommend calling the Insurance & Billing department to confirm your insurance is accepted, and that can be different at each Mayo campus on what they accept.
Mayo Billing and Insurance
https://www.mayoclinic.org/patient-visitor-guide/billing-insurance
Gather your records, reports, and imaging discs because you will be asked to submit these with your request for an appointment. The next step is contact Mayo, and here is a convenient link to get started. You can contact them first if you wish, and they will set up an account and tell you how to mail in your records.
Appointment Link for any Mayo Campus
http://mayocl.in/1mtmR63
They should assign you to a surgeon who matches what you need. You can also request a specific surgeon to review your case if you wish. I don't have information about neurosurgeons at Jacksonville other than a member here talking about seeing Dr. Fox there in this post https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/994872/ and this one https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1012459/. I like to look up published literature from surgeons I'm considering so I understand if their area of interest matches what I need. That is actually how I found medical literature that talked about a case like mine with leg pain from cervical stenosis.
My neurosurgeon in Rochester is Jeremy Fogelson who is excellent. I was very impressed with the time spent and level of care, and I had excellent surgical results. A spine surgeon will likely send you to a neurologist that they work with for evaluation, so you don't need to see one on your own.
Jennifer