yes and no. they plan on starting botox in jan. the first available appointment. and no, this neuro told me "under no circumstance do you want to let a doctor do sergery on your neck or your shoulders and elbows, with those spasms, you'd never heal up". with the disk getting worse, i can help but think about ISM. STEVEN ACTUALLY HAD HIS NECK OR BACK blow out on the job. he has had a rought time. -----Original Message----- From: Salkin Kathleen To: [log in to unmask] Sent: 12/9/2002 11:02 PM Subject: Re: results from mri I know what you're going through. Hope they can come up with a treatment plan. Do they plan to ease the spasticity with botox and then do surgery? Kat ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barber, Kenneth L." <[log in to unmask]> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.c-palsy To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 10:29 PM Subject: results from mri > i got the report back from my day before thanksgiving mri. it appears that 2 > more disk have came into play since 1998 and the two that were in play then > are worse now.