Posted by RandyB(MI) on April 26, 2017 at 07:07:36 from (97.92.53.112):
In Reply to: Stif neck posted by 37Chief on April 25, 2017 at 20:33:46:
Well. I wouldn't even consider this surgery at 74 but here's what happened to me and as I read, thousands of others. I was 62 when had emergency surgery (3hrs). It's called cervicle spinal stenosis. Every upright human will get it to some extent sometime in their life. Usually it's late in life so people just call it "old age" . Discs in cervicle vertebra disenegrate and cause degenerative joint disease (DJD) This lets it be bone on bone and when that happens, the bone tends to try to repair itself and grow new bone, so to speak , which tends to lock vertebra together momentarily until you twist and break it loose. The worst part is the space between vertebra is where your nerves that control everything come out through from spinal cord. Two things happened in my case. Nerves pinched causing numbness everywhere and where my vert. were trying to heal themselves from rubbibg together, they grew bone spurs which , in turn, grew and poked into my spinal cord making things even worse. Once they diagnosed my numbness as neurological and sent me to neurologist for MRI, he pulled me out of work and put emergency collar on me and scheduled emergency surgery. Said one bad move and I would be in a wheelchair for life. I was loosing control over both arms and one leg and bathroom continence. No pain at all, just loosing control, which is why people don't get excited about it when they should.Including Dr.s which tend to mis-diagnose because no complaint of "pain". Three hour surgery to grind out all the spurs and widen cervicle canal and put spacers between vert. at rear and titanium plate on front to space vert apart for good. Hard collar and in patient PT for 2 weeks just to re-learn how to walk , shower , had to re-learn how to tie shoes, button shirt etc. Left arm is still asleep today, left foot partially and all muscles are "firing " at same time s exhaustion is an issue. Not a good thing but better than the alternative of doing nothing.I had to "re-train" myself as far as bathroom duties as when it was ready to go . you'd better be close as bladder and rear muscles had to be re-trained. Basically like a stroke but for different reason medically. Nerves take a lifetime to "program" themselves for what we take for granted every day. Once they are damaged, some of that will never come back. People don't realize that when an elderly person looses control and / or bathroom control or needing walker etc, this exact thing is the reason. It usually comes on in eighties tho so we all just call it "old age". I had to change a lot of my retirement ambitions and re-style my life some but it could have been a lot worse and I'm happy to have what I have and can do and enjoy what I can. Did a MRI at 3 yr point and all is well in neck and complete spinal column, so that's good thing . 66 now and used to just not being able to do certain physical things I used to take for granted I'd always be able to do. I just "cringe" when I see kids/adults playing tackle football and/or riding "toys" without helmets and even water sports. The cervicle spine / spinal cord is your life line and so easily damaged. Sorry so long , but just one mans experiences.
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