Excruciating chronic left side neck pain plus lumbar issues

I am so sorry to hear of your terrible neck pain. I have neck issues as well, and I have been helped immensely by the upper cervical technique called Atlas Orthogonal. This is not a high velocity adjustment. When C1 and C2 are misaligned, it can cause pain throughout the neck and the entire body, impacting both your nervous system and immune system. You could perhaps check these doctors out on globalao.com to see if there is someone near you. I have been receiving this technique for 20 years, and I don't know what I would do without it. I do hope you will be able to find something that will ease your pain.

Hi Alfred, I'm so sorry to hear of your debilitating neck problems. I have had neck issues of my own and I have found a particular technique to be of great help. You may wish to check out this website: atlasorthogonal.com.au You will see they have several doctors in various parts of Australia. This is upper cervical care that affects the entire neck and spine, as well as the nervous system and immune system. I receive this care myself, and it has helped me tremendously.

It has been 3 days that my left side of the neck at base is excruciating so badly that the stabbing pain is felt in the neck, the left foot ( I don't know why), then in both ears intermittently, then the top of my skull, in my left biceps, forearm, fingers, in the left eye, the jaw, in the throat, in the left chest. Also feel throbbing on the right hand side of the neck. On top of this I have bilateral tinnitus. I am going crazy.

Sounds like radicular pain from a nerve in your neck. You need an MRI.

Alfred, have you considered trying acupuncture? It has helped me tremendously. I have thoracic spasms that were so bad it pulled a rib out of alignment. Worth a try.

Hi Everyone,

how are you?

I have been quiet for a while, but I have been getting worse since I last posted.

I made a huge mistake going to the Deukspine Institute in Melbourne Florida back in August 2023.

Neurosurgeon Ara Deukmedjian promised me that I would be pain free on the way back to Australia but this was far from the truth. I have been suffering atrocious pain since his surgery. This surgeon is a butcher and a fraud. He took my $71k for being worse than before.

He performed his so called DLDR C5-C6, C6-C7 minimally invasive laser surgery to decompress the C6, C7 nerves, bilateral rhizotomies C5-C6, C6-C7, C7-T1 and Right Approach L4-L5, L5-S1, Bi-Lateral Approach SI Joints; Coccydynia Injection.

When I woke up I had excruciating pain plus I had developed a dropped head.

I came back to Australia and the pain has kept increasing every week which has become debilitating.
Not even Tramadol 50md and Oxycodone 10mg plus Gabapentin 300mg managed the pain at night. I kept waking up with unbearable pain several times. My life has become unbearable in the last 6 weeks.

I am suffering from massive anxiety from the pain, high blood pressure, feeling clammy at times and getting very brief eletric shocks from the bottom right side of my neck, going into my leg and foot when I look down.

I have been to hospital ED 3 times in the last 4 weeks. They only provided brief pain management that didn't work properly and I am back to square 1. The hospitals here will not hospitalize me here,

I had 2 appointments with 2 diffferent surgeons: one orthpaedic surgeon and a neurosurgeon.
They both agreed that fusion would not resolve my ongoing pain problems.

So I am left with pain management which doesn't work. %100. I feel that life is nearly over.

They told me that I have extreme nerve compression in my neck in both side but mainly in the left,

This is a recent excerpt from the neurosurgeon:

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Thank you for referring Alfred for another neurosurgical opinion.
Medical Problems
- Chronic neck and back pain
- Chronic pain syndrome
- Advanced multilevel spondylosis
- Degenerative thoracolumbar scoliosis
- Left paravertebral upper thoracic stable lesion (? nerve sheath tumour)
- History of motor vehicle accidents in 2006 and 2019
- History of multiple pain interventions:
- Left C7/T1, T1/2 and T2/3 facet joint injections on 05/01/2023
- Left C6 – T1 medial branch blocks on 17/02/2023
- Left C6 nerve root injection on 15/03/2023
- C5/6 and C6/7 laser disc repair and cervical and lumbar rhizotomy on 29/08/2023 and 30/08/2023
History
I had a Zoom video conference with this 66-year-old patient today. Alfred suffered complex chronic pain affecting his neck, back and limbs for many years. He was involved in transport accidents and required multiple interventional pain procedures without sustained relief. He consulted several spinal specialists and eventually underwent procedures in the United States, aggravating his problems. Alfred indicated that
his head became unstable after treatment. His assertion from the United States recommended treatment of the paravertebral spasms. Alfred consulted a neurologist and an orthopaedic spinal specialist, who explained the unlikely positive response to surgery.
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I am currently getting bilateral severe pains on both sides of my neck, very stiff neck, pain in my traps, shoulders, scapulae, arms, hands, hands, fingers, back, groin, partially numb legs, partially numb feet when lying down with painful pins and needles. Hot and cold packs do not relieve the inflamations. I have been taking Robaxin 750mg but not helping much. When the pain is intense my skin around my earlobes feels as if it is on fire.

I don't know if this is caused by thecompression of nerves, spasms or both,

I am getting pain in my jaws, cheeckbones, ears, left/right eye, headaches, a feeling of ants on top of may scalp on the left.

Standing is the best position even though I am struggling too. I try to do some short slow walks and slow stationery bike rides.

I stopped driving the car since I came back on Sep 6.

I don't know how I am going to cope, life has become hell on earth.

I have attached both my most recent cervical, lumbar MRIs. I have checked for infection 3 times but the doctors found no infection. I have had the nerve sheath benign tumour for many years and have been told that this is not causing pain.

Please feel free to comment.

Thank you

Best regards

Alfred

Oh Alfred! , so sorry you are still in pain and suffering ! and will pray for you on this Blessed Sunday morning. Tried to sway you to go to Mayo or Johns Hopkin for a valid opinion. The only real deal as I had said before. But all that is hindsight now. Ut is a battle and we are here fighting by your side .For me
I just received 2 more tra nsforaminal injections in my lumber. I get them every 90days for past 2 yrs now. For many previous years had other types of epidurals which didnt help. Also going for a shot in my neck next week. it's been a year since my last shot there. Along with 600mg gabapentin 3x daily, 50mg tramadol, 200mg Celebrex and tylenol and ice packs alternating with hot packs and topical ointments daily. Sometime even need a sleeping pill or occasional oxy for what they call breakthrough pain. I find the gabapentin helps me most if all for the burning nerve pain. Had to stop the noritryptyline as it gave me tachycardia and threw my thyroid off.
That is my life and pain mgmt regiment currently. I have battled the lower back pain since my laminectomy in 1998. The neck pain started in 2015. Trying to out if any further surgeries. I will not get a Spinal Cord Stimulator for pain as I read so many problems occurring with those. So life goes on and I truly feel for you in your struggles with pain as I have battled with it and many of us here know how hard it is and send you our support and caring thoughts. I prayed you would find relief and when you stopped posting thought you had. So again I pray you find a regiment of meds and therapy that brings you some relief even so you can at least sleep. Wont text any more as I really limit it as it hurts my neck
Hugs and prayers

I am sorry too. You may wish to get a medical expert opinion on what was done to you and get legal advice as to whether this Dr has likely engaged in malpractice and if a complaint to Fla state medical regulator https://www.floridahealth.gov/licensing-and-regulation/enforcement/index.html#:~:text=Complaints%20against%20licensed%20practitioners%20or,%2D877%2DHALT%2DULA is warranted.
I never understood why this Dr. purported to "own" medical knowledge of this laser procedure which nobody else could know and why it was indicated in your case.
Keep going back to ED until they get you appropriate care.

https://deuk-spine-institute.pissedconsumer.com/review.html
Found this link above. They say many reviews are fake and bad one get scrubbed by his marketing mgr. ......

Alfred hope you have found some relief the last 2 weeks as you have not been posting. Hooing your post surgical pain is receding and you are making healing progress. Wishing you peace and pain relief, especially in the upcoming holiday season, God Bless you and your family and help you with your struggles