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<blockquote data-quote="Peace Please" data-source="post: 433807" data-attributes="member: 11492"><p>I completely agree with Marg. I owe my mobility to a doctor who dumped me because he was stumped with my case or a jerk, I'm still not sure which. I was FURIOUS at the time, but it turned out to be the best thing that could have happened. I had a seriously herniated disk and calcifications on a vertebrae in my neck that were causing me lots of problems. The herniation was pusing on my spinal cord, making it almost impossible to walk. The calcifications on the vertebrae were impinging the nerves running through the small holes in the vertebrae. My arms and legs were twitching, I couldn't feel much on my left side and the PAIN - OUCH!!! Unfortunately, the MRI didn't match my symptoms. A lot of diagnoses were tossed around from MS to Lupus. The MRI only showed the herniated disk, not the calcifications impinging on the nerves and most of the symptoms were caused by them. The first neurologist I saw thought that I was making up a lot of my symptoms because I CAN be a little dramatic (my Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), pain and fear is a bad combination!!) When I went in for an appointment, he told me that he couldn't help me any more. He told me that he would suggest contacting a doctor outside of his practice (this was the worst because it was the Cleveland Clinic) because any other doctor there may be biased by his notes and conclusions. I was a mess. All I wanted was for someone to help me, and now I needed to find a new neurologist and start over. However, the new neurologist was WONDERFUL. He did many of the same tests the first one did to rule out other things, but a few others that proved that my worst symptoms weren't being faked. I ended up having surgery to correct the problems. I still can't feel much on my left side, but I CAN walk (after a year of physical therapy) and do most things I could before. Where the first neurologist was a jerk, he actually did me a favor. He could have continued to take my money and I would be much worse off today. I always try to find the positive side of things. It doesn't always work, but I TRY.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Peace Please, post: 433807, member: 11492"] I completely agree with Marg. I owe my mobility to a doctor who dumped me because he was stumped with my case or a jerk, I'm still not sure which. I was FURIOUS at the time, but it turned out to be the best thing that could have happened. I had a seriously herniated disk and calcifications on a vertebrae in my neck that were causing me lots of problems. The herniation was pusing on my spinal cord, making it almost impossible to walk. The calcifications on the vertebrae were impinging the nerves running through the small holes in the vertebrae. My arms and legs were twitching, I couldn't feel much on my left side and the PAIN - OUCH!!! Unfortunately, the MRI didn't match my symptoms. A lot of diagnoses were tossed around from MS to Lupus. The MRI only showed the herniated disk, not the calcifications impinging on the nerves and most of the symptoms were caused by them. The first neurologist I saw thought that I was making up a lot of my symptoms because I CAN be a little dramatic (my Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), pain and fear is a bad combination!!) When I went in for an appointment, he told me that he couldn't help me any more. He told me that he would suggest contacting a doctor outside of his practice (this was the worst because it was the Cleveland Clinic) because any other doctor there may be biased by his notes and conclusions. I was a mess. All I wanted was for someone to help me, and now I needed to find a new neurologist and start over. However, the new neurologist was WONDERFUL. He did many of the same tests the first one did to rule out other things, but a few others that proved that my worst symptoms weren't being faked. I ended up having surgery to correct the problems. I still can't feel much on my left side, but I CAN walk (after a year of physical therapy) and do most things I could before. Where the first neurologist was a jerk, he actually did me a favor. He could have continued to take my money and I would be much worse off today. I always try to find the positive side of things. It doesn't always work, but I TRY. [/QUOTE]
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