This is going to be more of a "what would you do" than a rant, but here's my problem..


In 1996 i seriously broke my neck in a motocross accident. I spent 12 days in a coma with swelling on the brain. When i finally came to, my doctors told me that i had a 10% chance of ever walking again. I was given two options. A. Have major surgury to "attempt" to repair the two vertibrae that i broke, in which this route i was given a 30% chance of even makeing it out of sugury alive OR B. Lie in traction for 16 weeks, then wear a halo for another 8 after that.

I went with option B, seeing that a 30% chance to live is not to good.
After the 16 weeks of lieing completely on my back, my feeling had gradually came back to my legs and i was able to get up, with a halo on. I had to learn to walk all over again because 16 weeks of being in bed had seriously deteriorated my muscles.

Therapy lasted the whole 8 weeks that i wore that cage on my head and by the time i got it off, i was walking just like i did before my acident.

It's now 8 years later and my neck is KILLING me on a regular basis. I had yearly check-ups untill about 2 years ago, when my doctor told me that i didnt need to come see him again unless i had a problem.

I'm afraid that if i go back to see him with my problem that he'll say two things....A. deal with it, your alive. Or B. Have sugury to fuse the vertabra together. If he would recoment the later, that would mean a serious loss of mobility as far how i can move and turn my head (side to side and up and down).

I dont know what to do.....

Go see the doctor; you're already doing option A so I'm not sure what you expect to lose by seeing a doctor; he may suggest option C.

Yeah you have to see a doctor pronto man, that's a serious matter best left to professionals.

Good luck!

It can't hurt to see a doctor. If you don't see a doctor it could be something like nerve damage that could mess you up further down the road if you don't see a doctor.

See the doc.....that's all their is to it.

Do a self craniumectomy - you won't feel the pain anymore, I promise.

Oh, and never take medical advice from The Safehouse. What do a bunch of rogues know about medicine other than where to insert a shiv?

If your not getting any good answers from your doc that you want to hear, (Which if your asking for medical advice here I belive is the case) try going to a different doc for a second opinion. Maybe try a ciropractor (sp) they are all about bones and muscles in the wrong places.

My safehouse advice... Take a 6 inch stletto and drive it upwards from the base of the neck through the hole in the skull. All your pain problems will dissappear. :p

Edit: Skull not Skill

LOL, i like that.

I think i am going to look up the number of that Doc. I'm tired of eating Advil, Tylonol or Motrin, like a child eating there trick or treat candy.

Don't go to a chiropractor. While they may be useful for back aches or stiff necks, they are not qualified to do anything at all with this sort of injury, and there's a good chance they would end up screwing things up even more. You want a real doctor who has been to medical school.

Please, please go see your physcial therapist and doctor.

I had a pinched nerve in my neck back in 2000. Know how I found out? One day I woke up in bed and could not move my limbs with screaming. I was trapped in bed for 45 minutes until my family came home from church.

The compression on the nerve was so bad, I can't even describe it. Took anti-inflamatories, therapy each day - only using it unless it hurt and correcting my body posture ( turn body, not head, feather pillows, better mattress, etc.)

Now, years later, I rarely have an issue. When I do, I pop an advil, and then do my neck exercises. ( one shoulder blade is slightly high than other one, not noticable unless a nurse/doctor. This creates tension on my neck, my pinched nerve was the result of throwing my head out of alignment of my neck when using a computer at work.)

Physcial therapy can reallly improve your quality of life and be very simple once you know how to do the required movement properly.

My physical therapist did use chiropractors wehn needed, but in my case she said they'd be more likely break my neck when adjusting it - it was that bad.

Hope you feel better!

edit to add: if you were 'ok' for a period of time and it just started acting up, 10 to 1 it's body mechanics/posture/argonomics. See the doc, get x rays and physical theraphy to alieve the pressure.