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@frank815
I hear your frustration and have been where you are now.
Did your neurologist do a MRI of your brain and cervical spine? Did they do a small fiber neuropathy skin punch biopsy?
You may want to see a new neurologist for 2nd opinion and an orthopedic spine specialist to check to make sure your spinal cord is not being compressed and causing your many symptoms (called cervical myelopathy).
I have myelopathy caused by spinal stenosis, degenerative disc disease, bone spurs/osteophytes, herniated disc, etc. which is pressing on my cervical spine and nerve roots/nerves and causing all sorts of symptoms below the c5-c6 and c6-c7 level. Many doctors miss the myelopathy diagnosis and misdiagnose. A delay in diagnosis can cause permanent injury so treatment is time sensitive to stop the progression. I already had ACDF surgery on c5-c6 and having surgery on c6-c7 to decompress and fuse in 2 weeks.
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I do get horrible pain in that area that comes and goes some days it doesn't hurt at all but other days it hurts bad but can it cause all those symptoms I have even affected memory and vision and clicking in throat and mild swallowing issues and stiffness in thumbs just to name a few
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She only did one of the brain and emg both clear when I asked her for mri of head and neck mri repeat she said she can't justify doing one and to go see mds in 3 months