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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
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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
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Hi Jennifer,
this neck issues are also causing me other intermittent problems such as:
1) General un-wellness
2) Periods of clear thinking alternating with periods not so clear
3)Headaches that come and go
4) Left earache and jaw ache
5)When bending forward slightly I feel more pain in the left side around C7/T1 and concurrently feeling it in the left lumbar spine, groin, leg and foot
6) Anxiety for no apparent reason
7) Shortness of breath. Struggling drawing air
8)Blocked nostrils even though I am not sick, no sinus, hardly any mucus
9)Dizziness
10)Mental fog. Because I am deaf in my left ear, I feel a pulsating fullness.
11)Seeing blurry at times
12)Something in neck shifting making a single knock sound
13)Balance issues when walking also due to pain in the right hand lumbar nerve impingement
14)Hypersensitivity to sound, mainly cutlery hitting plates sounds.
15)Right side tinnitus as mentioned before.
16) Periods of high blood pressure.
17)Constant fatigue, arms weakness, shoulders pain.
I tell my pain management doctor but he doesn't address these issues.
The inflammation on the right end side has disappeared after taking 900mg of magnesium, I couldn't believe it.
Last night after having my worst pain, it suddenly disappeared after standing on 4 legs like a dog and applying the ice pack for a long time. Unbelievably I went to sleep without taking any meds and slept 6 hours straight, woke up to go to the toilet, went back to sleep and woke up at 7:30. I was feeling good. But later in the day my neck pain started rising, but still sort of bearable
Currently I have a sharp stab between C7 and T1, I am feeling tired, light headed and short of breath.
I am going to get my vertebral arteries checked soon after having seen the neurologist on 13/2/2023.
I wish I never got these bad issues after 20 years of peak physical activity.
In all this trouble I have faith in GOD and pray.
I have attached a picture of me in better times back in 2008.
That day I rode 220km non stop. It is called Around the Bay in day Melbourne Australia.
I kept riding until August 2022 when this problem struck for the first time. I haven't been riding since September 2022. I hope that I can get out of this condition and go back to some normality.
Thank you
Alfred