Granny's gone and done it again

[Cynthia12]

IDK what that is either. Is that a pinched nerve?

Yes. Blown disc's. Laying on the nerves around the spinal cord.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

Yes. Blown disc's. Laying on the nerves around the spinal cord.

and its a surgery?

 

[Cynthia12]

I've got that in my cervical neck. One area where the spinal canal is 'flattened'. Plus I have narrowed foramen. Those are the areas off the spine where nerves thread through that are causing pressure on the nerves. Lots of badly narrowed discs also. We all get degenerative disc disease as we age. Some are lucky that it never bothers them. Others like us have pain and problems. Ain't we lucky?

Not!

I have the x rays of it done somewhere. Of course now days they use something different.
I remember waking up with both of my arms down thinking..oh no, they put my arm down..it'll be dead. I use to have to put it up on my head to raise the disc off of the nerve. I moved my arm. Not dead. I was elated until I tried to move my neck. Man that was a painful surgery.

 

[Cynthia12]

and its a surgery?

If it's causing you horrible pain. :/

 

[Granny Hatchet]

If it's causing you horrible pain. :/

and it is.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

And my system is so used to these PPs they don't work anymore. Its like taking nothing.

 

[microchick]

you think this is my arm pain?

I don't know Granny and you won't know till you get that MRI done. PLEASE find a way to get it done.

I went to a pain specialist when my neck and shoulder pain was at it's worse. They wanted to do nerve ablation...burning the nerves to stop the pain and I said not without an MRI or a CT scan. They did an MRI and found out the reasons I was having all the pain. I told my doctor that I didn't think I was ready for ablation and he didn't either. We settled on PT which helped but what really helped was acupuncture. I'd get it done again without hesitation.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

I am so desperate to ease this pain I would probably agree to anything right now

 

[microchick]

Granny look up a site called Veritashealth.com. I get a news letter from them once a week concerning spine and joint health. If you go there, scroll down to 'spine health' and it says 'our sites'. They explain things in easy to understand ways for non medical people and you can search things like 'neck pain' 'back pain' etc and they will give you gobs of information and videos to watch and read.

One thing I will say and @Cynthia12 has already said it when she said it was a rough surgery. Any back/spine surgery should be approached very cautiously and only when all other options are depleted. It's a rough recovery and results aren't always great. Everyone is different in the way they respond to back or neck surgery but recovery is always slow.

 

[microchick]

I am so desperate to ease this pain I would probably agree to anything right now

I know sweetie. It hurts and the pain wears you out and wears on your nerves. Trust me I know. Hang in there. We love you and are praying for you.