Re: Mri-c5-6

Hi Chris, It was very nice to hear from you! It is funny how some of our symptoms are so similar. When my injury first ocurred the left side was effected. I can still remember how bad the pain was and there were times when i just wanted to die! The docs kept misdiagnosing me without doing any kind of tests and they also knew how conservative i was when it came to taking meds, so i sufferred tremendously. When i was finally dx i really didnt want to have surgery so i just kept putting it off. Well, wouldnt ya know it, just my luck a year and a half later i was in an auto accident, this elderly man who shouldnt have been driving hit my vehicle, so i ended up herniating another disc! So here i am with 2 herniated discs, one effecting the left side and the new one of course effecting the right side! A few months after herniating the second disc, one day i noticed that my right arm seemed to be weak. A couple of days after that it was extremely weak and i couldnt hold on to anything. It was pretty much weak and unusable for about a month and then it slowly came back. It was pretty scary when it first happened. Now since my surgery as i stated in my previous post, i still am having alot of pain and over the past 3 years i have changed a bit when it comes to the pain meds. I decided that if they were available to me i am going to take them for my pain, providing i am home. I am just so tired of being in pain. I keep telling myself that it will get better and it just takes time to heal, after all i am just 6 weeks post op. I am so looking forward to the day that i am pain free and need NO MORE MEDS!!! Do you ever post on the professionals board? Maybe i will see you in there! Hope to talk again soon, Hurdy