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I Can't Be the Only Person With This Issue
Bones, Joints & Muscles | Last Active: 4 days ago | Replies (60)Comment receiving replies
@artemis1886 I did the Nerve Conductivity and EMG tests as well. I have what is called Denervation at the T12-L1 juncture of my spine. That nerve stopped working more than 2 years ago. So now I have Radiculopathy around the right side of my rib cage because the nerve isn't working.
Unfortunately, the nerve specialist I worked with gave up after he performed an Epidural at the T12-L1 vertebrae and there was no change at all. He just basically threw his arms in the air and said out loud, "I don't know what's wrong with your spine". That was it, he gave up.
This is why I have seen so many doctors at so many hospitals. Most of them give up after trying one procedure, one image, one recommendation, so I have to keep looking on my own. It's been my full time job for almost 3 years now, but I'm not sure what to do next.
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@marcd2k I gave up looking. I started feeling more like a guinea pig than anything. The emg/ nerve conduction on me showed nothing wrong with my spine but just the muscle being permanently contracted. It’s an interesting sound listening to the machine and the noise it makes in the contracted muscle. Have you had a nerve rhiztomy where they cut the nerve to that muscle. The spasm is still there but it releases the nerve. They can’t do that to the one in my neck shoulder area. They do it in the piriformis muscle the sciatic nerve runs through that muscle so it being contracted it affects the nerve. It hurts to sit. I am ready for they to do another si rhizotomy.