After my cervical bone fusion...neck surgery. I started having severe migraines and radiating pain because now I have a damage nerve in my neck and in the upper back.
Sometimes we have to know just as much as our doctors. Research yourself and keep up with all the x-rays and reports of what's going on with our own bodies (to make the right choices for our health and those life changing decisions). Those reported dictations and x-rays will play a big part in winning your case for disability as it did with me, so maintain your own records…keeping a history of all medications and a list of all doctors.
I began learning about my health… that's how I found out that the doctor had performed my surgery on the wrong side making my condition worse.
In my case I have radiating pain from my neck down to my shoulder into my right hand.
Since the surgery, I come to realize, that when my neck is inflamed… it sends severe pain like migraines into my head which is sensitive to the touch, pain travels from my neck, into my right shoulder blade, then into my right hand. (Where I also had a carpal tunnel surgery)
With a damage nerve… the pain can seem everywhere...try using ice on your neck and see if that will reduce the headaches...you first have to find out where the pain is coming from...I put Ice on my neck … it worked better than medication...the pain start leaving from my head, shoulder and hand.
Things to try:
1 Reduce surgeries and medication (each surgery: reduces your mobility, increases arthritis, injures other disk below... because now they become weak and degenerative) which will cause other problems.
2 Try water therapies
3 Exercise daily… 30 minute walk daily is good, Yoga
4 Maintain a healthy weight to reduce the pain level.
5. Eat Healthy
6. Stay away from stress... it is a killer and will inflame those injured areas greatly
7. Keep an atmosphere of those who encourage, support and uplift you and understand.
8. Too much medication will effect your body also creating other problems...because I have chronic pain, I only take the medicine if I'm at a level higher than 7...if it doesn't reach 7...I try other normal ways, as I've mention above or methods that helped me...like just using Ice...or relaxing in warm water.
These are the things that have helped me since my surgery in 2003
Hope this helps.
Post edited by: 4uwisdom, at: 12/22/2010 03:04 AM
Post edited by: 4uwisdom, at: 12/22/2010 03:09 AM
