Re: Cervical pain

[Guest guest]

My husband has,(cervical) right now he would tell you not to do the surgery.

He had his first surgery in January of 05 from the front. It immediately went

to the right arm and he came out of surgery in pain. Before this surgery it was

the left arm. He had surgery again in June on the nerves affecting the right

arm.

He has now been on Loratab's for one year muscle relaxers for one year and

other med's. Now the disks below and above the one's that were worked on are

bad and they want to do surgery again. We are saying no way! He is looking

into a IDD therapy. He has also had all kinds of shots to block the pain, no

success.

The pain management doc's are now telling him Lyrcia may help. We are looking

into getting that. We have no med insurance so we are filling out paper work to

get it at a reduced price. From everyone on here it sounds like that just might

work. We are hoping. We have had two different doc's. We ahve three opinions.

It just simply did not work. His problem started 5 years ago when he fell flat

on his back on the ice. Gwen

[Guest guest]

lindam_wells wrote:

For the past 3yrs i have suffered degenerating disk disease C4-5-6 has anyone

had the fusion to repair them.

Hi,

In the past year I have had 3 major reconstructive cervical fusions, 2 in

through the front to fuse a total of C3 to C7 and 1 in through the back to fuse

C5 to C7 for added stability. NOT a fun time!

The first surgery was just a 2-level fusion. Six months later, with no relief,

the first surgery was 'undone' and two more levels included for a total 4-level

fusion. Another four months and still no relief, the doctor went in and did the

fusion to the back to add stability rods and pins.

I have been a member of this group since the very beginning, even before the

first surgery. I just always lurked and thought 'those poor people, I don't

really fit in there because surgery is going to fix my pain'. WRONG! (sorry

for shouting, but it's really called for).

I had no real trauma to my neck, the neurologist who did the first MRI came in

to give me the results and her words to me were " Boy, you sure have a crummy

neck " .

For more information about what's going on now, see my post called 'Diagnosis'

with what I found out from the pain doctor today.

I wish you well, please consider all your options. Let me know how it goes.

Tammie