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I had debilitating onset of pain in neck and across left shoulder in 2021 long long story short I had MRI which showed ALOT and it is scary for sure I lost all feeling in my left pinky all the way up to mid arm on very left side of the arm ( hope that makes sense ) We did injections 3 of them no change in fact worse on the last one we did PT which did nothing but put me in bed and off work with ice
I had a fusion in 2022 C 7 T 1 to where I was told this would put me down for 8 weeks I did the surgery and the nerve pain was gone however always have had the complete loss of feeling and was told " thats nerve damage " you may never get it back ok so then immediatly after this hip issues to where in 2024 had total hip as they said it was bone on bone i now one year late have been dealing w a signicant limp from leg lenght discrepancy which means my surgery leg is and has been verified 1/2 approx shorter which now i have the same neck and should and new loss of feeling in right hand index finger and top of hand in that area and i am being told not only does my limp have NOTHING to do with this new onset of spine ( cervical and lumbar issues ) but i have to have the same fusion done due to C8 nerve which is in fact right where the original C7 T1 fusion was done is still impinged so he wants to go in through the back and release C8 and I most likely will get my feeling back and another spine surgery I also just had an MRI of hip and have an overlying pocket of fluid " bear the trochanteric muslce and hamsrting tendinopathy and am scared worried and oh so confused what to do , do i address the hip that is causing the limp that has my gait off and then do the spine or find a miracle

i also want to add that I was told the " cup oeverhang " is 3-5 mm off in hip
and the surgeon who originally did my spine surgery stated in his first line of notes that he was operating on a 75 year old woman I was 53 at the time of that surgery I am scared !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ANY THOUGHTS IDEAS OR SURGEONS OUT THERE THAT CAN HEAR ME BECAUSE I CONTINUALLY GET TOLD TRY THIS , THIS IS NORMAL, NO THE LIMP AND LLD HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH YOUR NOW SPINE PAIN OR LOWER BACK BACK
I am very educated and very in tune to what is going on with my body and none of this is ok

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@hetoneemom24 I am wondering what happened to you. I had hip replacement a few months after my 2021 neck fusion too. I can get around but it was no miracle surgery like they said it would be and I get so tired in a store or standing or walking for long. And when they did a special spinal myelogram in 2023 they found osteophytes (bone spurs) just below where I had my C5-6 fusion done which makes me wonder if they missed them or if they were new. I hope you have found a successful way to deal with this by now. It is sad how many people are suffering from things when they had so much hope that these procedures would help their situation.