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OMGosh I think we are experiancing the same thing. Do you ever have jaw pain? Mine strarted with my shoulders hurting and I was admitted to the hospital because I couldn't lift my right arm. They gave me some muscule meds and sent me home after a week. Said they THOUGHT I had some type of Myalgia. Ayear later the pain has spred to my neck and jaw. I can barely turn my head to drive.
I have found that the Oxy meds make your body pain worse after taking them for long periods of time not to mention they are very hard to get off of. Vicodon is very hard on your liver but there is a form that I'm taking now called Norco that doesn't have as much ibprophen in it but more pain med. I go for a cat scan and EMG testing this week to find if it is a type of neuropothy.
I also went to the eye doctor where the asst there was telling about her symptoms that seems similar to ours. Aparently her sister has it also but she was sent to an institute in New York and was diagnosted with something called Arnold Chiari Syndrome. Check that out its pretty interesting and no one around here seems to know anything about it.
Hang in there ....Some docs just dont understand the pain we go through and think because they see so much crap on TV that everyone is an addict. Hope this helps.
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Two bulging disc in my neck and annular tear in L-5
Posted by rudejude
Can anyone relate to the pain I am in? I feel so alone and the doctors act as if I am making things up. One day they are telling me what I have can be a very painful condition for such a young person and then the next day saying that they don't want to increase my pain medicine, even though I have been on the same dose for months.
My lower back has the annular tear and I am having a microdisectomy in a couple days. I am really nervous but also hopefull that this will help me get back to normal. I have a one year old and work full time and man has the past year been a tough one.
As far as the pain in my neck goes I feel like I am going to go crazy. I have had the pain for a couple years and over the past couple months I started to notice that my hands were going numb when I raised them to talk on the phone or whenever I laid down. I do not sleep more then 2 hours at a time because the pain that shots up and down my neck is excruciating. I always have a headache in the back of my head near my neck, that is until I take my 600mg Ibproprehn. The shoulder pain started about a month ago and only when I was lying down and now it is constant througout the day. The doc's say I need to go through another round of shots and this time in my neck since the MRI showed two bulging disc. I take 2 15mg Oxycodone ever 4 hours and it doesn't do much any more.
Doc said I might have something else wrong with my shoulders and hands. Any ideas? Any one else have pain from bulging disc? I am new to this site so please be nice. I haven't had time to look through all the discussions.