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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
@ab6540183
Alfred,
All of your posts are telling me about constant high blood pressure, and that is to be expected because of the anxiety that you have. Have your medical providers addressed this high blood pressure? This is getting into territory that can get serious and lead to a stroke or heart problems as well as kidney damage if it high over a long period. That's why they call it a silent killer if you don't know it is happening because it may not cause symptoms. The kidneys filter the blood with blood pressure through very small vessels called capillaries formed into a ball called the glomerulus. The kidney is made of a lot of these and high pressure can destroy them and cause capillaries to be lost and the kidneys loose part of their function and become less efficient.
Will you ask your doctors about managing your blood pressure?
At one time, my doctor had prescribed Lexapro for blood pressure, but it is an antidepressant medication. I wonder if this would help you, and if it could be added to your mix? I don't know a lot about medications because I'm not taking much of any of them. I don't have high blood pressure, but that was being caused by stressful situations some years back.
Hang in there as best you can. If you can do the breathing and music therapy and lower your blood pressure, go for it! That worked for me when I was anxious before spine surgery.
Jennifer
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Hi Jennifer,
In the last week I have been feeling intermittent left jaw and throat pain.
Could this be related to my cervical nerves?
I have been feeling some left mild mid back pain recently.
Starting on the left of T1 vertebra I feel some mild pain going down for 12cm.
Can cervical pain radiate into your thoracic spine as well?
My last thoracic MRI from end of Jan shows this:
Findings:
The thoracic spine is sagittally aligned.
Multilevel loss of intervertebral disc space height and disc desiccation in keeping with moderate degenerative disc disease.
No thoracic vertebral body compression fracture appreciated.
Moderate multilevel facet joint arthrosis.
The spinal cord signal intensity and morphology is within normal limits
without evidence for syringohydromyelia.
There is multilevel posterior disc bulge with associated minor spinal
canal narrowing and indentation of the thecal sac anteriorly along with
mild multilevel, predominantly mid-lower thoracic neural foraminal
narrowing on background ligamentum flavum hypertrophy without
appreciable contact of the exiting spinal nerve roots evident.
SUMMARY:
The thoracic spine is sagittally aligned with spondylotic change
characterised by moderate multilevel degenerative disc disease along
with multilevel facet joint arthrosis.
There are minor posterior disc bulges predominantly in the mid-lower
thoracic spine associated with minor spinal canal narrowing seen with
bulging disc seen indenting the thecal sac anteriorly along with mild
neural foraminal narrowing on background ligamentum flavum
hypertrophy at a number of levels without contact-impingement of the
exiting thoracic spinal nerve roots appreciated.
The spinal cord demonstrates normal morphology and signal intensity
without evidence for syringohydromyelia.
Thank you
Alfred
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Hi Jennifer,
I have asked my pain management doctor, my GP and my cardiologist.
They all told me that my hear is fine and I don't need blood pressure medication.
Probably my anxiety is playing tricks on me. Also the clonidine has some blood pressure lowering properties.
I still have no answers from the first 2 doctors in regard to one hard lump 1 cm below the base of my neck and to the left 1 cm. The second hard lump is above the base of the neck to the right 1 cm. They both hurt if I gently press them.
The C7/T1 junction feels swollen. I wish I had a clear photo to show you.
The extreme pain starts from those areas.
In the mean time I am preparing for the C6 steroid injection on Wednesday.
I will get a sedation injection before the procedure because I can't stay still when lying down.
Alfred