Cripes! Your dharma just doesn't DO half measures, does it?
Here's hoping your medical team is able to fix it with a minimum of poking around. I was about to bust out a recommendation for the rock-star neurologist I saw at MGH after the Great Brain Adventure, but I've just remembered that (while a rock star) he's actually a neuro-ophthalmologist, which isn't so helpful in your situation.
More helpfully, you might want to ask whomever you end up seeing about radio-frequency nerve lesioning, which, despite its slightly terrifying name, has actually helped my mother quite a lot with a chronic neck injury she received in a car crash about 20 years back. (Some pain management docs have started calling that procedure a kind of rhizotomy, though it's not actually related to the much more involved procedure that originally used that name, probably because it's less alarming than "nerve lesioning".) Hopefully the steroids will do their job, but if they need help, RF lesioning might be a useful hedge in between that and full-on neurosurgery.
And in the meantime, very careful hugs that don't compress anything which ought to be left alone for the moment. Enjoy the flexeril! I had an outstanding time with some of that and some codeine at the regional jazz festival one time in high school. On legitimate medical orders!
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Date: 2012-09-16 08:05 pm (UTC)Here's hoping your medical team is able to fix it with a minimum of poking around. I was about to bust out a recommendation for the rock-star neurologist I saw at MGH after the Great Brain Adventure, but I've just remembered that (while a rock star) he's actually a neuro-ophthalmologist, which isn't so helpful in your situation.
More helpfully, you might want to ask whomever you end up seeing about radio-frequency nerve lesioning, which, despite its slightly terrifying name, has actually helped my mother quite a lot with a chronic neck injury she received in a car crash about 20 years back. (Some pain management docs have started calling that procedure a kind of rhizotomy, though it's not actually related to the much more involved procedure that originally used that name, probably because it's less alarming than "nerve lesioning".) Hopefully the steroids will do their job, but if they need help, RF lesioning might be a useful hedge in between that and full-on neurosurgery.
And in the meantime, very careful hugs that don't compress anything which ought to be left alone for the moment. Enjoy the flexeril! I had an outstanding time with some of that and some codeine at the regional jazz festival one time in high school. On legitimate medical orders!