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I myself have been quite ill health wise and am facing more colon surgery pending tomorrows test.
As many of you know I have an autonomic dysfunction and all my involuntary muscles are being attacked right now even my typing has been affected so I can't go into details right now.
I just wanted to let you main people of this discussion community I have been thinking and praying for you. Deb.View Thread

Now I am waiting for the call back as to when and where as well as what kind of surgery she will be doing. We are praying that a repair can be done and not a colostomy. At this point I don't care what kind just fix me so I can go a little more normally.View Thread

I will also keep praying that all works out well for you. DebView Thread

Over all there has been much improvement in my neck. It is now my facets that are being a pain in the neck - pun intended. Deb,View Thread

Until my muscle relaxers fully kick in I am getting steroid injections in my neck muscles I am going back next Wed. for more. Mine are just trigger point injections with steroids.View Thread

I had almost the same problems you are having except I also was passing out any time I moved my neck, right arm was numb and painful for months, couldn't move it 4 inches.
I went to one Dr. he refused to do any more tests, he actually told me to go home and live with the pain, there was nothing more they could do for me. So I found neurosurgeon who is rated the best in my state - he took one look at my old MRI from a year earlier and said I needed a new one.
I went and had a new MRI done and sure enough I was not only pinching a nerve in my neck but also crushing my spinal cord in 4 places.
I wore a hard neck brace for 2 months to see if taking pressure off the spinal cord helped, it did I was 90% better - that was a good sign - it mean I was a good candidate for a neck fusion.
So please go get a Neurosurgeon so you can have the proper tests done to see what is really going on. Deb.View Thread

I also had a 7 vertebrae cervical fusion done from C3-T1via the back of my neck, they used my own removed bones to aide in the bone growth. I wore a bone growth stimulator 4 hrs a day for 6 months to fuse everything together. I had to have all 10 screws and 2 rods removed just this past Sept. so my healing is still taking place. No InFUSE was used at all. I truly feel for you, I can't even imagine what you are going through.
On the TV lately InFUSE has been mentioned time and time again - there is a numbers of lawyers taking on cases such as yours because the InFUSE was not intended for use in the neck - and over time it causes the reactions that you are describing. There is a Nationwide lawsuit going on right now.
Google InFUSE lawsuit now, I will be praying for you no one should be in the kind of pain you are in caused by someone else's negligence.View Thread

I had a discectomy on my C5-6, C6-7 where they put in discs where I didn't have any, that surgery was in 2009 and it was done in the front of my neck a little off to the side. I had some swelling and a lump feeling in the throat for about a month until I was healed.
I had a 7 vertebrae cervical fusion C3-T1 done with laminectomy in June of 2011. They went through the back of my neck. I had 3 surgeries after the original one for different reasons but the last one was in Sept. 2012 to remove all the hardware. I was told for the amount of work they did on me it could take up to a year for all my pain to go away and the nerves to come back. I do get pain in the base of my skull called occipital nerve pain and I get injections of steroids into that area a couple times a year. I wear a tens unit during most days for the pain.
Both of my surgeries were done by Neurosurgeons. Since your doctor is no longer practicing can you seek a new Neurosurgeon for a second opinion? I feel bad for you. DebView Thread

I googled it because I never heard of this - much that I read sounds good. They do not use any drugs so it is not approved by FDA and many insurances do not pay for this procedure either.
http://www.prolotherapy.org/what-is-prolotherapy/
I would start with my insurance first and see if it is covered. I does sound promising and I hope it works for you keep us posted.View Thread
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