Hi @willjean19
Thank you for your prayers 🙏 and advice.

I am due to have the cortisone injections in left of C7/T1 T1/T2 T2/3 facet joint injection on 5 Jan 2023. I hope that this will help me with the pain and help them diagnose what the hell is going with my cervical/thoracic spine.

The last few days have been horrible despite the fact I didn't push myself, just doing daily light short slow walks as suggested by the physio. All I know is that before the C6 nerve root injection on the 1 Dec 2022 my pain was bad, but not as bad as what it is now. After that injection I started to get more pain around C7/T1/T2/T3. Did the hospital stuff it up? They says they didn't.
Also I have had some physiotherapists and osteopaths that have treated my neck in a rough manner by pushing hard when I asked them to be gentle. I showed them my MRI reports and told them to be delicate, but they didn't. Can physios and osteopaths cause more damage to your spine by being rough? I.E. push a disc out of place, herniate it more, break something inside?

My current worse spine condition has occurred after these treatments and nerve root injection and I can only logically draw the conclusion that these events must have had something to do with it.

Currently I have constant pain spreading from C6 down to T3 mainly in the left side and recently I feel new pain as of 2 days ago in the right from C5 to T3. WTF!

I don't know whether it is due to nerve or facet joint issues. The neurosurgery group pain management specialist does not know yet and that is why he has recommended these facet joint injections.

10 hours ago Australia celebrated New Years day, but I had nothing to celebrate, because I was in extreme pain. I kept standing throughout the first few hours of Sunday morning here in Melbourne AUS, because it mitigated the pain then I had to go to bed. Despite I took 1 Endep 10mg (amitriptyline), 1 Lyrica 25mg (Pregabalin), 1 Diclofenac 50mg, Clonidine 50mcg and Targin 10/5mg (Oxycodone/naloxone) I could still feel on the left of my neck, around C7/T1, a massive penetrating stab which was almost unbearable. What is this stab caused by? Spasms, facet joints catching onto a nerve, nerve compression by disc bulge?
I asked my specialist, but he didn't have an answer for me.

I am not able to manage my pain completely, I.E. get a good night sleep. Throughout the day I act like a drunken blow fly moving around the house not knowing what to do or how to kill my time during the day? A minute feels like a hour, a hour feels like a day, a day feels like a week.

I sort of feel like a vegetable, because I have lost purpose in life due to the continuous pain.
I can't spend more than 20 minutes sitting down in front of my computer, sit down for dinner before I have to get up, move around and try to sit again. Driving my car has become an impossible task, not because I am not able to drive it, but because it is painful sitting down and obviously I can't drive if I am under the influence of strong drugs. I also miss seeing my 3 grandchildren. When I try to call friends and relatives to have chat, they never pickup. I have been forgotten.

I am feeling rather depressed and anxious, but still have the hope that a very good surgeon can fix my issues in a way that pain will be manageable. The other problems are financial ones, because I don't have a lot of money currently. I am unable to work despite 30 years of experience in the IT field . Maybe I should try those Gofundme websites to raise some money.
Since I have been at home I put on 5 kg due to the lack of physical activities. Until 6 months ago I was doing 60km bicycle rides.

Anyway enough of my whinging.

Best regards to everyone and Happy New Year! I hope that everyone will be able to get much better ❤️️🙏