Guest guest Posted August 1, 2008 Report Share Posted August 1, 2008 I went to see Dr. Castellvi and he doesn't agree with the radiologist re; loose rod on CT scan.He seems to think my pain (between shoulder blades and into shoulder and arm and also now causing numbness in my arm)is caused by " severe central stenosis with mild mass effect on the anterior thecal sac and bilateral foraminal narrowing at C4-C5 as well a multilevel changes of DDD and spondylosis " This is from a CT report I had in October 2007 which was ordered by his Nurse Practitioner who at the time kind of tossed it aside saying " we couldn't do anything about this right now anyway " It's one of those situations you run into when seeing a Nurse Practitioner instead of the doc(which I refused to do as of a few months ago).Anyhow he seemed a bit perturbed he didn't know about it,asked 2 or 3 times who ordered it.So here's the plan,I'm having a cervical ct myelogram on August 14th where they will have to go in between C1-C2 which I hear is a pretty delicate procedure,anybody had one?And the worst part is he's talking more surgery but assures me it won't be nearly as bad as the others!!! On a positive note one year fusions look great..........Donna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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