Re: Neck Pain Whiplash Syndrome

Dear Marshall,

MRI's are great for looking at things like blown disks and cracked vertebra,
but they aren't worth a damn for neurological problems like pinched nerves.
They can guess at nerve impingements from the way things are positioned, but
it really sounds like you should have some further testing done. I'm
specifically thinking of an EMG, which is a nasty little test, but it will
show problems with nerve conduction. From what you are saying about the pain
and numbness you're having, the discomfort of an EMG will barely be noticed.
And there are no confined spaces involved.
I hope you have a lawyer dealing with the insurance company of the driver
that hit you. If you don't, you should consult one right away and see what
can be done. It may be too late, but it would be worth it for you to find
out if it's not.
The apnea may even be related to the accident I had a friend that developed
it, as well as TMJ, from a car accident, so it's possible.

Wishing you the best of luck--og








"Marshall Cosme" <bcosme@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:7eF4f.41223$Q53.9216@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Please read this and respond if you have the time
> Can anyone please advise me. I was hit from behind in an automobile on
> April 2nd, 2003. Eventhough, the impact did only 500 dollars damage to my
> vehicle and bent the drivers seat, I have gone through absolute hell since
> then. I have been diagnosed with central and obstructive sleep apnea. My
> doctors have said it is one of the worse cases they have ever seen. Wow!
> do I get a grammy or somekind of reward? Anyway, I did not have a good
> head restraint and the way I was hit must have stretched my nerves kinda
> like a rubberband. My four mri's which I can't stand having one, because
> of being claustrophobic have all been negative? Eventhough, I am in
> continual pain in my neck, arms, shoulders, arms elbows. It has gotten to
> the point that it is making it very difficult to work affectively and I am
> deeply troubled over the lack of physical finding from the mri's. The
> numbness in my hands and arms continues to bother me. I can't not lift,
> throw, wrestle or doing anything with my hands and arms without paying
> dearly for it with rebounding sprains to my neck and pain all over my
> upper extremities. Even, parallel parking my SUV causes me to have pain. I
> have tried ibuprophen 1600 mg a day! Tylenol, ha! The sleep specialist
> advised me not to take any kind of sleep aid or pain killers, do to my
> sleep apnea : that is when you stop breathing in you sleep. I set a record
> of 278 sleep disturbances in one night! I did the rehab and chiropractic
> care, and believe my problem is in my nervous system, no MS or other
> neurological problems , thank God! But this pain thing is making mine and
> my families life really tough.
> I was unable to get the proper care after losing my job in Nov. 2003, my
> insurance was immediately canceled. So, I started to go to a State
> sponsored hospital, but they are good but extremely slow. The other
> doctors refused to see me because of no insurance, eventhough it was
> obvious as time progressed that my developing health problems were caused
> by the hyperflexion of my neck. I would have never imagined going through
> and having my health plummett downward so quickly, it is like I have been
> handed an early death sentence. I actually can feel my cervical spine
> shift and move whenever I bend over to pick something up off the floor. C1
> through C6 have been thoroughly inspected, I believe my problem is in my
> cervicothoracic junction where the cervical spine joins the lower spine. I
> know I sound like a doctor , but when you are in as much pain as I have
> been in, and it comes down to not being able to sufficiently support your
> family, you research everything to try to find a cure for whatever is
> ailing you. It makes sense, if my cervical spine, is not tight enough or
> has become unstable from the whiplash motion and jerking a snapping , I
> did not see it coming and was totally relaxed. I think, If I would have
> seen it coming I could have braced myself better, and prevented so much
> movement. I can stand for anyone to bump into the back of a chair that I
> am sitting in , I mean just a nudge seems to irrate me to the point of
> anger. My personality has changed too, my kids can not stand to be around
> me, because of my attitude and the way that I snap at them. My sex drive
> and relationship with my wife has tremendously diminished. My short term
> memory really sucks! I mean I have to relook again and again to recall
> simple things like phone numbers, words out of a book and other things. I
> also seem to have a since of falling when ever I sit back in my chair, it
> is really an odd feeling. I have been refused to be seen by several
> neurologist, because of the fact of being in a car accident, what kinda of
> crapt is that, I even offered to sign a non disclosure agreement, I just
> want to get better, plain and simple. I have an appointment finally to see
> one at the State Hospital, hopefully they can explain to me what is going
> on in my body. I am going to see a pain management specialist, but I
> really don't want to have to take pain killers, but at this point, I might
> just have to risk the side affects. I still have hope, eventhough I have
> had several doctors say that I might just have to live with the discomfort
> and pain, when I heard that one, I really wanted to go off on them. If
> they had any idea the kind of pain I have been enduring they most likely
> would have never said such a thing to me. Thanks for reading my letter,
> any help or enlightenment would be very much appreciated. Sincerely,
> Marshall H. Cosme
>


.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: New Member, Just wanted to say hi to all !!
    ... nerves in my spine, i have done all the nerve blocks and burns, and ... pain and 30 mgrs of oxycodone for break through pain, ... to help me sleep and have to sleep on a couch as the bed kills me with ... I'm sorry you're hurting, ...
    (alt.support.chronic-pain)
  • Re: The neuromatrix theory of pain and agnoy.
    ... The central control processes would ... other sensory inputs that influence cognitive interpretation; ... Pain may ... become pain nerves - they send a signal when there is damage to the ...
    (talk.origins)
  • Re: How much bendryk is unsafe?
    ... finally helped me sleep (w/muscle relaxers too as the spasms from RSD ... I fuched all wenr to see mt dr today to tell abt how bad the pain was ... along with this my right the buundle of nerves that run ... from yout nech itno yout hand,,,these set of nerves are intrewined ...
    (alt.support.chronic-pain)
  • Re: Our Troll Problem
    ... a medium of pain; the term suggests that Stewart thinks that the pain ... along or through the nerves from its origin with the pin which is its ... Hines says that he absented huimself from SGM because he had become bored ...
    (soc.genealogy.medieval)
  • Re: Human trauma from everyday riding
    ... have had pain in my legs. ... it was mechanical damage to the ... nerves that run along the front inside of the groin area. ...
    (rec.equestrian)