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Excruciating chronic left side neck pain plus lumbar issues
Spine Health | Last Active: Nov 18, 2023 | Replies (360)Comment receiving replies
Thanks for you incredible help.
Last night I could sleep despite the meds. I didn't even get drowsy. My neck was as rigid as a tree trunk.
I felt massive pain going through both sides of the neck, then down in part of my thoracic spine, pain in groin, back of legs, calves, feet, toes. Plenty of refereed pain in left hand fingers. Didn't matter how I turned my body on the mattress. It felt like a biting, burning sensation as if something if pulling hard inside. On top of all this I developed right ear loud tinnitus 2 months ago out of the blu. I don't know if it is caused by the nerves, the medicines that I am taking. I also have ear sound hypersensitivity as of 2 months ago. The pain, the whistling is driving me crazy. I told my pain management doctors and haven't had any response from him. Probably busy making a lot of money. By the way did your fusion resolve your pain? Thank you.
Alfred
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Hi Alfred, if your question was for me, yes, my cervical fusion resolved all of my spine generated pain instantly. I could tell as soon as I woke up from anesthesia that it was gone. The only pain left was from the surgical path.
You are on a lot of medication, and that can cause tinnitus. If you look up the drug name with the word ototoxic, you may find information related to that. Ototoxic drugs cause damage to the ear internally. Hearing depends on nerve endings that are hairlike that float in fluid and receive vibrations of sound traveling through the fluid in the inner ear. Those hair cells are easily damaged by loud noises, and ototoxic drugs can warp and deform them, causing a hearing loss, or tinnitus. If you have an environment medicine doctor who does detoxing, you could ask what you can take to help detox from your medications. Sometimes the tinnitus can be temporary, or it can be permanent depending on what drugs are causing it. I have tinnitus from taking a high dose of an antibiotic which I have accepted as my normal. With aging and medications, I think tinnitus is pretty common.
Jennifer