YEEESSSSSS.

Your condition is also called Cervical Myelopathy.

I had the surgery.  In order to save my life as my spinal cord was so
traumatized I'd collapsed in a quadriplegic heap.  A few days previously
my GP misread my advanced symptoms and sent me home to get orthopedic
therapy.  )-:.  My surgery involved an emergency laminectomy, C-2 to
C-5.

I'm getting an MRI update exam 04/11.  The neuro-surgeon said that with
CP there was little to no way of telling what's going on "inside."

I've been posting longingly and was mulling an update.  Thanks for
stirring me to write.

I'm not surprised by your diagnosis.  Many on this list and amongst my
off List friends are walking time bombs.

I regard the condition as the CP Stealth Disease.

Steve.



----- Original Message -----
From: "K. Salkin" <[log in to unmask]>
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.c-palsy
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Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2001 10:40 AM
Subject: MRI Results


> Hello, everybody:
>
> If you will remember, I posted here a few weeks ago asking for
feedback on
> botox and baclofen treatments for spasticity.  Well, I had an MRI last
week,
> and the results were surprising, to say the least.
>
> First, there's nothing wrong with my head (although some may beg to
differ).
> But the pictures of the spine shows a different story - a compression
of the
> spine at C-3 through C-5, which the neuro diagnosed as cervical
spondylosis.
> No wonder my hands and arms are weaker and spasming, even though they
were
> fine up to a few months ago.  And here I'd been thinking it was due to
> overuse from wheeling myself in my manual chair.  Shows not to make
> assumptions, eh?
>
> So now the neuro is referring me to a neurosurgeon for spinal
decompression
> surgery.  Has anyone on on this list had this surgery?  Did it improve
> anything?  Please let me know.
>
> Thanks!
>
>             Kathy S.