lostinlouisville
Distinguished member
- Joined
- May 10, 2008
- Messages
- 242
- Reason
- Other
- Country
- US
- State
- ky.
- City
- louisville
O.K. I thought I would be having c-spine surgery the first of the year. I went to nuro- surgeon yesterday and he just does not feel comfortable doing it with other progressive symptoms non- diagnosed by nuro. for the last 8 months, so surgeon is taking matters into his own hands. I told him my regular Dr. feels I need the spine surgery and his response was, He is not the one responsible for how that turns out and maybe he should have been doing his own job the last year. So the surgeon is admitting me to hospital on 1-08-09 and doing something called a myelogram/ ct study and a spinal tap. These both seem rather painful but he feels they should have been done months ago. So he is determined to get to the bottom of this problem. He said in his opinion, c-spine surgery was not going to help most of my symptoms, [ BRISK REFLEXES, ATROPHY, WEAKNESS IN LEGS] He said it would help pain level and maybe some of the weakness in the right hand. I don't know has anyone ever had either of these test done and are they as painful as they sound? Thanks Renee