Hello,
I have s-curve scoliosis with the largest curve in my left thoracic spine (40 degrees as of 10 months ago). I've had minimal pain and limitations for most of my time with scoliosis, except for the last three years. I've gone to doctor after doctor about this (unfortunately I moved to Montreal and don't have a GP...we use walk-in-clinics a lot here because the medical system is so stressed). The typical response has been for dr's to order an x-ray of my spine and then say "yes, you have scoliosis, that can get painful and that is why your back hurts, take an advil" I've never had pain like this before and since it came on so quickly and won't leave, I am convinced something else is going on. It really feels like some of my ribs in the rib hump area have become detached (from whatever they are supposed to be attached to).
Yesterday I caved and went to a private clinic to get an MRI done (so worth the money!). While the clinic will not give me the MRI report directly (I have to get it faxed to a doctor who will go over it with me), they did give me the images from my MRI. Holy batman! My poor spine! I've attached one that is haunting me. It does look like a rib is detached and like all sorts of bad things are going on in the disks and tissue around my rib hump (although of course I am not trained to read these images). I am curious if anyone has seen anything like this before? Have you heard of anyone with scoliosis having ribs detach? I've heard of chiro's fixing dislocated ribs in people with normal spines, but I don't think anyone would want to try it on me....for good reason.
I have s-curve scoliosis with the largest curve in my left thoracic spine (40 degrees as of 10 months ago). I've had minimal pain and limitations for most of my time with scoliosis, except for the last three years. I've gone to doctor after doctor about this (unfortunately I moved to Montreal and don't have a GP...we use walk-in-clinics a lot here because the medical system is so stressed). The typical response has been for dr's to order an x-ray of my spine and then say "yes, you have scoliosis, that can get painful and that is why your back hurts, take an advil" I've never had pain like this before and since it came on so quickly and won't leave, I am convinced something else is going on. It really feels like some of my ribs in the rib hump area have become detached (from whatever they are supposed to be attached to).
Yesterday I caved and went to a private clinic to get an MRI done (so worth the money!). While the clinic will not give me the MRI report directly (I have to get it faxed to a doctor who will go over it with me), they did give me the images from my MRI. Holy batman! My poor spine! I've attached one that is haunting me. It does look like a rib is detached and like all sorts of bad things are going on in the disks and tissue around my rib hump (although of course I am not trained to read these images). I am curious if anyone has seen anything like this before? Have you heard of anyone with scoliosis having ribs detach? I've heard of chiro's fixing dislocated ribs in people with normal spines, but I don't think anyone would want to try it on me....for good reason.
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