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Friday, May 18, 2012
Monday, May 7, 2012
Having complications after surgery,because MRI's can't see through the titanium plates because of something called an artifact(a glare that is preventing any visualization)...So, does anyone know what I should do, in this situation for them to be able to see?? How are they going to see, unless they do move the titanium plates?
Has anyone had their Cervical plates removed because of an Artifact that is blocking the view of vertebrea to be visualized?
HELP...I NEED ANSWERS...b4 I am stuck, in a place that I will never be able to come back to me...or ever be able to take care of myself...again.:((
I have been suffering with whole body pain and numbness on one side of my body. The docs have ruled out MS(I think?),since there is no change in my brain MRI, but all of this started after my C5-C6 spinal diskectomy. They keep saying that all that they can see is an artifact, in which is just another word for a black area that can't be seen through. With the symptoms that I am dealing with, it seems to be that the surgery wasn't a success, more of a failed fusion maybe. I don't know. They did say that I had fused, so if I have why can't they take out the titanium plates that are keeping them from seeing what is actually going on in my neck?
It feels like I have developed some kind of infection around the sugery site maybe. There could be a serious complication from this and I can't believe that my NS won't LOOK further, instead of relying on the visual of the MRI and NOT looking at it, with his own eye.
I told him to stick a Camera in there to see or do something to make sure that there is no problems, but he won't do anything.
He could remove them for me, but I am just going to find out if there is a problem, from someone else. IF he doesn't care enough to go that extra mile to make sure, then I must find another way to get the answer. It will ahve to be another NS then, for I don't see the original Doc that did my surgery.
If I have to, I will get them out. I have to see what is causing me to stay bedridden, can't stand or sit for 15min. and walking is minimal because my legs give out on me.It is like my left knee just gives way and I have feel flat on my bottom. YOWCH!
THIS IMAGE SHOWS SOMETHING POKING INTO MY SPINAL CORD. WHO KNOWS, MAYBE...IT IS THE SCREWS, BUT I WAS TOLD THAT THERE WAS A SCREW...THAT WAS PLACED INTO AN OPENING(vertebrea) AND PUT RIGHT ON TOP OF A NERVE.
NOW, I DON'T KNOW IF THAT CAN BE SEEN HERE IN THIS VIEW, BUT IT GIVES REASON TO SUSPECT THAT IT COULD BE HAPPEING, DUE TO ALL OF THE SYMPTOMS THAT CORRELATE TO A C5 OR C6 MEDIAN NERVE COMPRESSION.
THE MEDIAN NERVE RUNS THROUGH THE NECK AND DOWN THROUGH UR ARMS. IT IS ALSO, IS RIGHT NEXT TO THE ULNAR NERVE THAT ALSO, GOES THROUGH UR ELBOW.
I HAVE FELT LIKE MY ELBOW IS BEING CONTINUOUSLY STRUCK WITH A HAMMER. IT IS VERY PAINFUL, WHEN U CAN'T GET THAT TO STOP...AFTER, A WHILE.
THEREFORE, IT MAKES PERFECT SENSE THAT IT COULD VERY WELL BE...MY NECK SURGERY THAT HAS CAUSED EVERY BIT OF THIS TO HAPPEN TO ME...AND THE ONE WHO DID MY SURGERY, WON'T LOOK ANY FURTHER TO SEE, IF IT IS.
I HAVE BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH CARPEL TUNNEL IN EACH WRIST, BUT IT COULD JUST BE THE COMPRESSION OF THE MEDIAN OR ULNAR NERVE. EVERYTHING JUST MAKES SENSE THAT IT IS THE NERVE BEING COMPRESSED IN MY NECK!!!
I have been this way going on 6 yrs. and this is just plan ridiculas. I don't understand how a doctor can take an oath to uphold, if he won't do what needs to be done to find the answer to why I am suffering so badly. I do have a few good days, but they are so far and few between. I have missed so much because of being stuck in bed and just looking outside, it hurts. I have always been an outdoors person...fishing,camping,running with my kids, but now I can't walk or stand for 15 min. that is ridiculas. There has to be a reason. The neck makes perfectly good sense. It is where the median and the ulnar nerve run.I know that in between the median and ular is the Brachial Artery and am wondering if that is what has also made my chest to hurt, have shortness of breath because when I have an episode the whole left side of my body goes completely numb, even my face. I am grasping here, but I think the plates need to come out, but I need to know if it is possible or has anyone experienced this before.
Can they take them out without any repurcusions and cause even more pain. I mean, I don't want this to wind up severing my spinal cord or cause me to lose the use of my arms/legs. This is a very serious issue and I can't seem to get my NS to take me seriously. I am beginning to wonder if he doesn't know more than he is saying. I am not a judgemental person and I am a very patient one, but he mentioned to me right after the surgery,in which I might add he was not suppose to do my surgery, another NS I had been seeing the whole time was suppose to do it. He did ask me if this NS could set in, but not do 90% of my surgery like I was told by his nurse.
My issue is that I am too young to have lost what I have and I can't get that back, but I have a lot of good long years ahead of me. I am only 46, just turned. I just want to live without the threat of severe pain and agony. I wish I could add a pic., for I have some of my MRI's that show a screw that has twisted right up next to the other one. (After, veiwing this page, I noticed that the image that I am talking @ is at the bottom of this page. It is the view that I was talking @ and u can see where they are twisted. The last time that I went in to see my NS, there was that page that told me that my plates "had moved", but HOW can the NS, just ignore that???
Yes, I only have two screws in there with some butterfly looking piece holding it together. I should be able to get that out and they see what is behind there....killing me. I think.
If anyone can shed me some light on this, it would be greatly appreciated. I just want to play my guitar and sing again, like I used to. I did work professionally in Nashville for 3 yrs.,but if I don't get this straight, I will never be able to play it again. HELP, Can I take these plates out. I just want to see what is behind there. I was told by a friend of mine,who is a doc,Chiro, that I had a screw that was placed in an opening and put right on top of a nerve, but he lost the xray in a move and has passed since then. I am lost and just need help. I sure hope there is someone out there who can tell me of what, I should do. Thanks ever so much.:)))<3 Karen
It feels like I have developed some kind of infection around the sugery site maybe. There could be a serious complication from this and I can't believe that my NS won't LOOK further, instead of relying on the visual of the MRI and NOT looking at it, with his own eye.
I told him to stick a Camera in there to see or do something to make sure that there is no problems, but he won't do anything.
He could remove them for me, but I am just going to find out if there is a problem, from someone else. IF he doesn't care enough to go that extra mile to make sure, then I must find another way to get the answer. It will ahve to be another NS then, for I don't see the original Doc that did my surgery.
If I have to, I will get them out. I have to see what is causing me to stay bedridden, can't stand or sit for 15min. and walking is minimal because my legs give out on me.It is like my left knee just gives way and I have feel flat on my bottom. YOWCH!
THIS IMAGE SHOWS SOMETHING POKING INTO MY SPINAL CORD. WHO KNOWS, MAYBE...IT IS THE SCREWS, BUT I WAS TOLD THAT THERE WAS A SCREW...THAT WAS PLACED INTO AN OPENING(vertebrea) AND PUT RIGHT ON TOP OF A NERVE.
NOW, I DON'T KNOW IF THAT CAN BE SEEN HERE IN THIS VIEW, BUT IT GIVES REASON TO SUSPECT THAT IT COULD BE HAPPEING, DUE TO ALL OF THE SYMPTOMS THAT CORRELATE TO A C5 OR C6 MEDIAN NERVE COMPRESSION.
THE MEDIAN NERVE RUNS THROUGH THE NECK AND DOWN THROUGH UR ARMS. IT IS ALSO, IS RIGHT NEXT TO THE ULNAR NERVE THAT ALSO, GOES THROUGH UR ELBOW.
I HAVE FELT LIKE MY ELBOW IS BEING CONTINUOUSLY STRUCK WITH A HAMMER. IT IS VERY PAINFUL, WHEN U CAN'T GET THAT TO STOP...AFTER, A WHILE.
THEREFORE, IT MAKES PERFECT SENSE THAT IT COULD VERY WELL BE...MY NECK SURGERY THAT HAS CAUSED EVERY BIT OF THIS TO HAPPEN TO ME...AND THE ONE WHO DID MY SURGERY, WON'T LOOK ANY FURTHER TO SEE, IF IT IS.
I HAVE BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH CARPEL TUNNEL IN EACH WRIST, BUT IT COULD JUST BE THE COMPRESSION OF THE MEDIAN OR ULNAR NERVE. EVERYTHING JUST MAKES SENSE THAT IT IS THE NERVE BEING COMPRESSED IN MY NECK!!!
I have been this way going on 6 yrs. and this is just plan ridiculas. I don't understand how a doctor can take an oath to uphold, if he won't do what needs to be done to find the answer to why I am suffering so badly. I do have a few good days, but they are so far and few between. I have missed so much because of being stuck in bed and just looking outside, it hurts. I have always been an outdoors person...fishing,camping,running with my kids, but now I can't walk or stand for 15 min. that is ridiculas. There has to be a reason. The neck makes perfectly good sense. It is where the median and the ulnar nerve run.I know that in between the median and ular is the Brachial Artery and am wondering if that is what has also made my chest to hurt, have shortness of breath because when I have an episode the whole left side of my body goes completely numb, even my face. I am grasping here, but I think the plates need to come out, but I need to know if it is possible or has anyone experienced this before.
Can they take them out without any repurcusions and cause even more pain. I mean, I don't want this to wind up severing my spinal cord or cause me to lose the use of my arms/legs. This is a very serious issue and I can't seem to get my NS to take me seriously. I am beginning to wonder if he doesn't know more than he is saying. I am not a judgemental person and I am a very patient one, but he mentioned to me right after the surgery,in which I might add he was not suppose to do my surgery, another NS I had been seeing the whole time was suppose to do it. He did ask me if this NS could set in, but not do 90% of my surgery like I was told by his nurse.
My issue is that I am too young to have lost what I have and I can't get that back, but I have a lot of good long years ahead of me. I am only 46, just turned. I just want to live without the threat of severe pain and agony. I wish I could add a pic., for I have some of my MRI's that show a screw that has twisted right up next to the other one. (After, veiwing this page, I noticed that the image that I am talking @ is at the bottom of this page. It is the view that I was talking @ and u can see where they are twisted. The last time that I went in to see my NS, there was that page that told me that my plates "had moved", but HOW can the NS, just ignore that???
Yes, I only have two screws in there with some butterfly looking piece holding it together. I should be able to get that out and they see what is behind there....killing me. I think.
If anyone can shed me some light on this, it would be greatly appreciated. I just want to play my guitar and sing again, like I used to. I did work professionally in Nashville for 3 yrs.,but if I don't get this straight, I will never be able to play it again. HELP, Can I take these plates out. I just want to see what is behind there. I was told by a friend of mine,who is a doc,Chiro, that I had a screw that was placed in an opening and put right on top of a nerve, but he lost the xray in a move and has passed since then. I am lost and just need help. I sure hope there is someone out there who can tell me of what, I should do. Thanks ever so much.:)))<3 Karen
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I have had 14 MRI's since '06 and they haven't been able to see through any of them, because of the artifact(a glare preventing to see through it). They only can see a black hole and they call it an Artifact. I looked it up and it just means that it is like a glare that a camera gives off...sort of, but I am in desperation here. I have to see what is going on in there, behind those plates because nothing else is explaining the debilitatin pain I suffer each and every day.
I am suffering so much and they can't find the cause of all of it,, because they can't see behind the glare of the artifact. So, I definitely want them to take them out, so I can FIND the answer to all of this.
I really believe that this is where my problem lies. It has to be coming from somewhere and this is got to be it. It has to be there, they have looked everywhere else. The NS that did my surgery seems to be giving me the run around and I really hate to say that, but he mention on the very first visit, after the surgery that the pain in my right bi-cep...was in fact, due to my C5. So, why then has he dropped me as a patient and not trying to find the answer to where the pain is originating from. I truly believe it is something really wrong in my neck...I can feel it!!
I used to have so much more good motion, but now...every movement is so very painful. There could be a screw that is pressing on a nerve that is causing ALL of this, but now I don't know what to do, but to pray that someone will help me get back to me.:P
I feel so broken and I can't pull, push, reach or bend..I can't do much of anything now. If, I get a good day and can walk..I hurt myself and pay for it...for a long time.
While, in the NS's room waiting on him last visit, I saw a piece of paper on the desk that had my name on it and I was ever so curious to what it said..@ me, but tried to refrain from reading it. But, as I waited in that room...in which, feels like forever...I did read it and this is what it said, "Mrs. Elmore comes in today, where she claims the last time she was here her plates moved, they had." OKAy...my plates in my neck have moved???...that is NOT good. IT could very well be, why I am losing the use of my arms and legs, because there is some impingement somewhere.
I wish, I would've taken a pic of that important piece of paper that stated a change in my surgery, but I wasn't thinking. My hubby said that I should have just taken it, but unfortunately, I didn't do either.
There is a reason why my body is in total agony...and as God is my witness, I will get to the bottom of it..."Lord Willing"...<3
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