Joined: 13 Oct 2005 Posts: 41 Location: desoto mo.
Shoulder/arm Pain Posted: 11-19-05 09:58am
Let me start with saying I am 9 weeks
post-op cervical surgery. The fusion of
my c-6 to c-7 was done after a car wreck
sublexed and fractured 1 of the vertabra.
This was causing severe pain's in the
neck, shoulder's, upper arm and hand along
with numbness and weakness. The surgery
took away some of the pain's and weakness
but my shoulder's and upper arm's still
hurt when raising them up or out to the
side's. I am going to therapy for rotator
cuff tendinitis. Can anyone tell me if
these pain's could still be from nerve
damage? Is there anything else which
could be the problem? Thank's
steevo
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steevo
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 13 Oct 2005 Posts: 41 Location: desoto mo.
Posted: 02-16-06 06:57am
Since this last post, I have been through
weeks of therapy followed by months of
follow up with the same excersise and
increased weight training waiting to see
the next doc that could fit me in. I
finally had two cortisone shots, one in
both shoulders. My question is, without
using some sort of x-ray machine, how
could this guy know where to position the
needle he stuck in me?
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Tamadrummer
Active User, Really EHEALTHy
Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 710 Location: Zephyrhills,Fl
Posted: 02-16-06 08:45am
He really couldn't other than by using the
old method of landmark injections.
There are still many old school docs out
there that do injections without
floroscopy because it was the best that
was had when they got into medicine but
there is no way I would be having
injections around my spine without the use
of floroscopy. There is no reason to not
use it and it is the best way to pinpoint
the right location and also repete the
injection at the same location if the
earlier injection was successful.
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steevo
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 13 Oct 2005 Posts: 41 Location: desoto mo.
Posted: 02-20-06 10:20am
Thanks for the reply. I am going for a
follow up visit next week and will
question the doc about this. It's been
about a week since the shot's and I can
say they have probally did more harm than
good seeing the same old pain's are there
along with some new one's which make my
bicep muscle's feel like I over did an arm
workout. Will up-date later, I guess the
experiment's are not over yet!
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Tamadrummer
Active User, Really EHEALTHy
Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 710 Location: Zephyrhills,Fl
Posted: 02-20-06 10:31am
I have no doubt that it did put you in
more hurt than before. Those procedures
are really intense and to do it blind
makes no sense.
You may want to follow up with him but go
back to your family doc and get a referal
to a reputable spine doc that uses more
modern methods of practice.
Your cervical spine is the easiest to
break and the most difficult to fix. It
is imperative that they not make a mistake
in there.
and read about injections and success vs.
Failures and other procedures as well.
Good luck steevo, like you, me, coastie,
buttons and others are on the long, long,
long, long, long, road to possible
painless life. (i hope at least)
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steevo
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 13 Oct 2005 Posts: 41 Location: desoto mo.
Posted: 02-20-06 10:40am
Hey thank's again, i'll use your advice
and get a second opinion. We have to keep
trying. Will post later.
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steevo
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 13 Oct 2005 Posts: 41 Location: desoto mo.
Posted: 03-09-06 08:12am
I went back for a second set of crtisone
injections after talking with the doc.
The first set without x-ray were put into
the rotor cups which are fairly large in
comparison to where he put the second
one's. These were done under x-ray, with
a dye and put directly into the shoulder
joint. I don't really know the difference
but it did seem to help. It's only been
two day's with minimum activity so I can't
say yet if it completely took the pain
away or not but so far it has done some
good. Will post later as I learn more.
