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Excruciating chronic left side neck pain plus lumbar issues

Spine Health | Last Active: Nov 18, 2023 | Replies (360)
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@jenatsky

I reread your reply again and I wanted to point out that you have multiple vertebrae that need to be fused and you have multiple areas that are compressing on nerves in your neck causing you pain. If you also have pain in your legs too you may have damage lower down too. At 66 you’re at the age to begin feeling your body aging and I’m sure the trauma you endured did not help much. I wouldn’t be surprised if they fused 3 or 4 vertebrae in your neck. And I’m only guessing that sitting at a computer makes things worse?

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AlfredB | @ab6540183 | Mar 10, 2023

Hi Jenatsky,

how are you? How are you managing your issues?

I have been under a lot of stress recently and the pain management medicines are making it hard to relax and slow my breathing.

The doctor recommended to take 75mg of Pregabalin, Targin 10/5, Clonidine 50mcg.
At the beginning the Pregabalin help me but yesterday evening I started to feel weird in my mind, I felt disconnected. Early this morning I woke up suddenly after a bad nightmare. I could feel electric currents flowing from my neck downwards. I have been experiencing these electric currents and increased pain for the last 15 days now straight after having had first acupuncture on 22/2/2023 and then osteopathy on 23/2/2023.
I contacted the acupuncturist and the osteopath in regards to this increased pain and electric currents but they denied that their service could cause these. All I know is that before seeing these people I did not have these new issues. I was trying to get some relief and instead I got worse. You can't trust anyone

I have questioned my pain management doctor about all these symptoms but he did not address the answers to my questions?

Are these problems that I have life threatening? My doctor said no, but I am going through hell daily and nightly.

I am always at home unable to do anything due to either being drugged up or pain once I become sober again.

When I am sitting at the computer I am wearing the collar and I am not looking down at he screen because the screen is at eye level. I only spend about 15 to 20 minutes looking at the screen. If it hurts I take a break and then go back to complete my messages.

I apologize asking the following question but I need to get an idea about fusion.

Can my condition be treated successfully by a skilled neurosurgeon?
Will a fusion reduce my pains dramatically?
Will the fusion make me stiff? Will I be able to drive, reverse the car?

I feel 2 sore hard lumps around the left of T1 and on the right of C7 vertebrae.

I wondered if these are bone spurs or disc squirting out.

I asked my GP and pain management doctors but they told me not to worry about them.
I asked them to have them investigated with either a ultrasound or CT scan but they completely ignored me.

I have made an appointment with another pain management doctor here in Melbourne but I have to wait until the 6th of April. The new medical group is called PrecisionHealth (Precision Brain, Spine & Pain ).
The existing appointment that I had on the 22 of March with another neurosurgeon has been postponed to the 17 of May due to the doctors' family issues. Quite disappointing.

Thanks again for your support.

Best regards

Alfred

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