@juljul You have quite a story too. I am glad you had a good neurosurgeon who figured it out. I am glad your symptoms are better. That feels great does it? What you're left with now is healing pain. Think positive. The dizziness may have been cured with your surgery. When you do get to have physical therapy, you can discuss the past dizziness and muscle spasms and have the PT assess this. Some patients who have thoracic outlet syndrome (which I have) can pass out if they turn their head. That doesn't happen to me, but TOS can be caused by a whiplash and is often missed by doctors unless they are trained in this condition. Undoubtedly, your surgery will cause enough inflammation that an assessment for TOS would have to wait.

For now, just be careful. You don't want to fall during your recovery and there may be dizziness related to having surgery. I think it's hard to be a patient when doctors keep missing the diagnosis. That happened to you too, and I'm sure you can write your own story about that. You've learned a valuable lesson too about advocating for yourself and how to connect to the details that were missed. I'm sorry you were dismissed. I got that too. We're both wiser now.