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Excruciating pain from cervical (C7/T1) radiculopathy

Posted by mlerin @mlerin, Nov 4, 2019

I've been in excruciating pain in the right shoulder and throughout the arm and hand for months. MRI diagnosis is C7/T1 and C6-C7 severe foraminal narrowing and stenosis. Had a cervical epidural injection last Thursday and so far no relief. Is prolotherapy or PRP a good option? Any other non-surgical treatments out there that actually work?

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Misty123 | @leigh123 | Jul 19, 2023
In reply to @birdman518 "I recently posted about my experiences with realizing that I have (99% probability) cervical radiculopathy, plus..." + (show)
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I recently posted about my experiences with realizing that I have (99% probability) cervical radiculopathy, plus possible ulnar nerve damage that causes pain and tingling from my neck down to my right hand. All fingers are affected, but mostly my thumb and index finger.

But the most pain I have is in my shoulder. I have assumed this was related to the neuropathy, but then I realized that the amount and intensity is almost the same as when I had a rotator cuff injury from playing tennis... probably at least 15 years ago. But I have not done anything like that to cause that problem to recur.

Does this sound to anyone here like it is part of the nerve issues? Has anyone with C6/7 nerve pain had shoulder pain?

Thanks,

Mitch

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Hi, I had a similar experience… I hurt myself at work manual handling heard and felt a pop in my shoulder/scapula area.. next day the right shoulder, arm and thoracic area throbbing and on fire burning, scan showed bursitis so 2 steroid injections and 4mths of physio still no relief, my physio wanted to mri both my shoulder and brachial plexis, both scans came back with nil issues, my shoulder was the main source of pain 2 months later dr decided to do cervical mri with shows severe disc prolapse and facet joint issues in the c5/6 and c6/7, I had no neck pain at all… neurosurgeon ordered a diagnostic c7 epidural injection with supposed instant relief, instead my neck became incredibly sore and stiff with severe loss of rom and pain radiated from my neck to shoulder and down into my hand, first and middle finger and thumb.
I found the injection aggravated what ever was going on.. fast forward another 3mths I had a c6/7 fusion… now 6mths after surgery my pain since the fusion has doubled, I now have that same burning throbbing frostbite feeling down my entire right side from neck to foot and have just been diagnosed with chronic regional pain syndrome.

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