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Excruciating pain from cervical (C7/T1) radiculopathy
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@jenniferhunter - did you have to wait quite a bit for the Mayo Clinic doctor? Many assume it is next to impossible to get in front of a doctor or surgeon there. Wondering if you can share how you ended up there? I had a spinal fusion and laminectomy of C2 to T1. That’s now been redone to T2. However, my first time- I woke up from surgery with no feeling in my arms and hands. It wasn’t just that I couldn’t feel them. They did not function either. So at 6 am - I had full use of both arms and hands. About 6 hours later- i woke up and I could not feel my arms or hands. No function either. I’ve gotten a little feeling bad but as a writer, journalist, and piano player - my hands make that nearly impossible. I had that surgery in 2022 and I still cannot write my own name today. Devastating.
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@kdt That is devastating. I am sorry that happened to you. I understand where you are coming from as I use my hands a lot as an artist. I was loosing coordination in my arms before my surgery, and I got it back.
As for your question about getting into Mayo, when I applied they said it was probably a 3 month wait. I had been seeing surgeons for 2 years and none would help. That probably helped me get in, and I had a condition that was misunderstood by a lot of surgeons called “funicular pain”. Because there was a cancellation, I got lucky and got an appointment 6 weeks after my request. It was because I read a paper authored by the Mayo surgeon that mentioned funicular pain that I found medical literature with similar cases. I knew I had found a surgeon who understood the problem that all the others missed. My issues were at one level and a lot less surgery than what you went through.