I saw a scoliosis specialist a few weeks ago. All the usual was seen on my x-rays and MRI's: bone spurs, disk bulging, narrowed neuroforamen. The worst area is from C4-T2.
However, given the curvature, the doctor said that I should have symptoms on my right. I have them on my left. For that reason, he thought something else was the cause of the pain on my left and sent me to an orthopedic surgeon. The Ortho could find nothing except the scoliosis.
When ever I bend forward (such as when leaning over one's dinner plate while eating, or over a desk while writing or typing), I get a significant pain mid-way between my spine and my left scapula. Then, my shoulder begins to ache, I get a burning pain on the back of my arm and my two outer fingers on my left hand get tingly.
The pain gets so bad that I sometimes have to leave the dinner table and lie down mid-meal.
I spent twenty or so minutes leaning over a broken coffee machine last week, trying to fix it. I was in bed for the rest of the day.
Now what?
However, given the curvature, the doctor said that I should have symptoms on my right. I have them on my left. For that reason, he thought something else was the cause of the pain on my left and sent me to an orthopedic surgeon. The Ortho could find nothing except the scoliosis.
When ever I bend forward (such as when leaning over one's dinner plate while eating, or over a desk while writing or typing), I get a significant pain mid-way between my spine and my left scapula. Then, my shoulder begins to ache, I get a burning pain on the back of my arm and my two outer fingers on my left hand get tingly.
The pain gets so bad that I sometimes have to leave the dinner table and lie down mid-meal.
I spent twenty or so minutes leaning over a broken coffee machine last week, trying to fix it. I was in bed for the rest of the day.
Now what?
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