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Cervical Stenosis

Spine Health | Last Active: Mar 10, 2024 | Replies (45)

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@jenniferhunter Sorry I was so wordy and still am. Well the orthopedist that I went to I will be going back to see him. He is an orthopedic surgeon. I can take him the discs and see what they have to say. I saw my eye Doctor regarding my cataracts. He use to be a neurologist but he is now an Ophthalmologist. He requested my neuro records from when I got diagnosed with small nerve fiber. He did answer a question before I asked it. I wondered how he would operate on cataracts knowing I had small nerve fiber and pin pricks in my eyes. He told me that I would have to be put to sleep versus them using a needle around my eyes so that is something to ask and think about if they want to give me some kind of a shot for back issues. I will look into Mayo for help. I have Medicare and Tricare for Life. When I was in England pain woke me up going down the side of my hip all the way down my leg. That's also when I had the pain in my upper chest. When I came home I bent over and had electrical pain go from my left hip down my leg but not all the way. When I sit I get pain in the back of my left thigh achy type. I also had it in my other thigh once. I also have been walking and it came in the front of my left leg and it went down my thigh and was like a disconnect at the knee and went down the lower leg. I have a disc and will get the other one for the MRI I had of my spine and will ask questions to see what the orthopedist has to say. I will check into Mayo for sure. I had an ultrasound of the abdomen done and I asked the tech about breast ultrasound and let me tell you she was great. She told me where to go to get a diagnostic mammogram and ultrasound done. I could not understand why the neurosurgeon said I had very little stenosis in my neck when the report stated that I did. He said that the stenosis would not have caused the pressure that I had. I will call Mayo in Florida and see what they tell me. I have lost a lot of trust in Doctors lately. I have seen some sitting Doctors. My definition of a sitting doctor is he sits there and talks to you then just listens to your heart and lungs. That is a sitting doctor. I have heard some things from Doctors that make no sense to me period. I have heard this from other people also. I am looking for an internal medicine doctor also. I did already fire two Doctors and I am fixing to fire a third. Thank you for the information and I will let you know what I find out. I am a determined woman I really am. The medical profession has gone down from what it used to be. I know they have good doctors out there I just need to find them. @rnlorena

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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