Cervical facet joint nerve RFA, now in so much back of head pain
Two weeks ago I had upper cervical RFA to destroy the nerves in my upper facet joints and now I am in so much pain in the back of my head. The right side of the back of my head is numb, it stings constantly, and if I put any pressure or touch the back of my head there's a big sore spot. Brushing my hair is torture. They never told me I'd have this kind of reaction when I okayed to do it and when I called them about it, the doctor's office said pretty much to suck it up for the next few weeks. Pain meds aren't doing anything for this pain. Anyone else have this happen to them and how did you fix it?
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I had debilitating onset of pain in neck and across left shoulder in 2021 long long story short I had MRI which showed ALOT and it is scary for sure I lost all feeling in my left pinky all the way up to mid arm on very left side of the arm ( hope that makes sense ) We did injections 3 of them no change in fact worse on the last one we did PT which did nothing but put me in bed and off work with ice
I had a fusion in 2022 C 7 T 1 to where I was told this would put me down for 8 weeks I did the surgery and the nerve pain was gone however always have had the complete loss of feeling and was told " thats nerve damage " you may never get it back ok so then immediatly after this hip issues to where in 2024 had total hip as they said it was bone on bone i now one year late have been dealing w a signicant limp from leg lenght discrepancy which means my surgery leg is and has been verified 1/2 approx shorter which now i have the same neck and should and new loss of feeling in right hand index finger and top of hand in that area and i am being told not only does my limp have NOTHING to do with this new onset of spine ( cervical and lumbar issues ) but i have to have the same fusion done due to C8 nerve which is in fact right where the original C7 T1 fusion was done is still impinged so he wants to go in through the back and release C8 and I most likely will get my feeling back and another spine surgery I also just had an MRI of hip and have an overlying pocket of fluid " bear the trochanteric muslce and hamsrting tendinopathy and am scared worried and oh so confused what to do , do i address the hip that is causing the limp that has my gait off and then do the spine or find a miracle
i also want to add that I was told the " cup oeverhang " is 3-5 mm off in hip
and the surgeon who originally did my spine surgery stated in his first line of notes that he was operating on a 75 year old woman I was 53 at the time of that surgery I am scared !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ANY THOUGHTS IDEAS OR SURGEONS OUT THERE THAT CAN HEAR ME BECAUSE I CONTINUALLY GET TOLD TRY THIS , THIS IS NORMAL, NO THE LIMP AND LLD HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH YOUR NOW SPINE PAIN OR LOWER BACK BACK
I am very educated and very in tune to what is going on with my body and none of this is ok
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2 ReactionsSometimes with these spinal problems and joint problems you feel like a lamb going to the slaughter. These doctors who are supposed to know so much often make mistakes or they make the wrong decisions or make the wrong diagnosis and we are left to suffer with the results. You are lucky if you haven't been gaslighted or ghosted when you complained after surgery that you still had problems. I guess all we can do is keep working with our doctors and keep trying to help ourselves and get as much information as possible. My heart goes out to you.
Yes I had a similar experience with my ablation on cervical area, I just told my neurosurgeon about it two weeks ago. It was pretty painful for a couple weeks, burned up into the back of my head! I couldn’t touch that area. It was very numb the first couple days, then ouch!
It only helped the neck pain a little bit, so I will not get another one. But the pain did go away.
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I having the same problem
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