Pinched nerve spine and inflammation

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I just wondered about this discussion.

When I first got sick in 1987 the first real bad feeling was flu

like achy and all over weakness.

A few months later I could not stay awake. This was beyond fatigue

but just so sleepy that I could sleep for days and then could barley

wake up to shower.

Some time before those things felt so bad I developed some painful

neck and shoulder pains.

I was give a couple of shots of cortizone back then and I was first

told it was bursitis then later tendonitis.

Through the years of developing more and more symptoms with these I

do have daily burning neck and shoulder pain.

It was not until the summer of 2000 that so many different pains got

so bad.

A couple of years ago I woke up with same neck pain but a few days

into it the pain radiated down my arm.

This got worse and the only way to get relife was to keep my arm

over my head.

This felt like a deep cramp that ran up my arm down to my fingers.

I went to see a chiropractor that took this seriously.

He did x rays and said I had a pinched nerve he called it radiopathy.

The xrays also showed spurs and degenerative disk dx.

After a couple of weeks the pain got under control. I still have

numbness in two fingers and weakness with that arm.

Sometime last year my MD had me have a cervical MRI that showed

cervical spindylosis with joints of Lushka hypertrophy at C5-6 and

C6-7.

Encroachment on the neural foramina more severe on the right than

left.

The radiopathy was on the other side.

MD wanted me to see a neuro surgeon for a evaluation and after a few

more months of burning neck and shoulder pain I got up the nerve to

see one more person that calls there self a Dr.

The neuro surgeon ordered PT and a lumbar MRI.

I have feet that are cold all the time and they feel just like they

are painful with a feeling that is a sorness.

.. I ask him the neuro surgeon back pain could cause this and he

ordered a lumbar MRI and PT for lumbar.

It showedL3-4 diffuse posterior bulge and right lateral disc

protrusion.

L4-5 diffuse posterior bulge mild facet arthropathy bilaterally.

L5-S1 diffuse posterior bulge .

Both deep tendon reflexes are dead. Some of the arm ones are

dulling.

These things are getting worse some days I almost can't feel my arms

but they do hurt.

My feet hurt every day and are so cold that I burned a small hole in

my calf with the heating pad. I feel asleep.

I tested positive for lyme dx almost three years ago. None of the

antibiotics seem to help except ramifin did back in the winter.

I used it for 30 days. I just started a another 30 days of it.

I had high fibrinogen, and high fragment 1+2, and then factor II

activity was high through HEMEX.

For over 20 years I have been getting a herpes rash on my tailbone

and now my tailbone has some hard bone that I can feel that keeps

growing.

It didn't show up on xray.

That hurts sometimes and I know that there is a knot there because

my husband can feel it. I can not sit in a bathtub without it

making me have to sit on one side. I don't understand why it does

not show up on xray. It is getting larger.

Something else that I keep reading on this forum I had two positive

staph cultures from my nose back in 1973 and they said I was a

carrier.

I don't have any root canals and only three amalgams.

I have had good teeth.

I did have a horse give me a concussion a few months before all the

flu like achy weakness started and I don't know how long I was

knocked out. The Dr I went to for lyme was the only Dr to ever

mention jarring your putitary gland.

I have taken several different antibiotics so how do you know which

one you need?

Thanks I hope I didn't ask to many questions.

sandy