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Greetings,
I've been lurking here for a couple months and finally got a neurologist appointment. It isn't for another month and I'm going crazy so I decided to just post.
I went to my PCP about pain and weakness in my right arm I've been having for the past couple years and had some MRIs done.
A few things were found:
1. Structurally, I have a torn rotator cuff. This would presumably be the cause of the pain and weakness more towards the shoulder area.
2. I have moderate cervical stenosis in my neck
3. I have a herniated c7 disc
4. I also have some bone spurs somewhere in the lower thoracic region giving me sciatica. Don't remember which one that was
I've also had numbness in both arms that comes and goes for 10-15+ years that has, in the past, been attributed to "nerve damage" but I don't know what exactly.
The reason that I'm posting is because I have some symptoms that I don't know whether or not they can be attributed to the above findings.
In short, my bicep seems to have gotten slightly weaker over time, and my right arm is twitching most of the time (mainly in the bicep too)
A lot of times bicep strength can be due to something related to a rotator cuff tear (this is my PCP's theory), but we didn't find anything structurally wrong.
And the twitching. My PCP didn't seem to know why I'd be twitching and that's why I got the referral to a neurologist. I'm just really concerned about the apparent weakness over the past year or so combined with twitching in the same muscle.
I've been lurking here for a couple months and finally got a neurologist appointment. It isn't for another month and I'm going crazy so I decided to just post.
I went to my PCP about pain and weakness in my right arm I've been having for the past couple years and had some MRIs done.
A few things were found:
1. Structurally, I have a torn rotator cuff. This would presumably be the cause of the pain and weakness more towards the shoulder area.
2. I have moderate cervical stenosis in my neck
3. I have a herniated c7 disc
4. I also have some bone spurs somewhere in the lower thoracic region giving me sciatica. Don't remember which one that was
I've also had numbness in both arms that comes and goes for 10-15+ years that has, in the past, been attributed to "nerve damage" but I don't know what exactly.
The reason that I'm posting is because I have some symptoms that I don't know whether or not they can be attributed to the above findings.
In short, my bicep seems to have gotten slightly weaker over time, and my right arm is twitching most of the time (mainly in the bicep too)
A lot of times bicep strength can be due to something related to a rotator cuff tear (this is my PCP's theory), but we didn't find anything structurally wrong.
And the twitching. My PCP didn't seem to know why I'd be twitching and that's why I got the referral to a neurologist. I'm just really concerned about the apparent weakness over the past year or so combined with twitching in the same muscle.