Everyone that has a spinal injury has a cyst of some sort at the injury site.
When that cyst fills with fluid and causes symptoms is when its called post
traumatic syringomeyelia. Some individuals with syrinxes go their whole injury
without any sort of medical intervention. An mri will reveal the extent of
growth of a syrinx and of its existence. The only time surgery is a must is
when noticeable function is lost, most of the time when this happens the syrinx
is extending upwards. Pain is common and usually gets worse as time goes by.
Some paras get relief from draining the syrinx with a needle and sometimes a
shunt is put in. This is frowned upon by nueros when advising quad patients w/
syrinxes because if you lose any function from messing with it from surgery you
will lose arm function. If you are in a position where surgery is a must
contact scott falci and charlotte starnes in Englewood colorodo hospital for
advice and have them take a look at your mri free of charge. Don't do anything
quick until you understand what you are dealing with.
Ron
On Friday, January 20, 2017 11:25 AM, Danny Hearn <ddh...@sbcglobal.net>
wrote:
Larry, it is determined by an MRI...but these days they don't even want to
operate unless a person is losing movement...the operation to try to help is
very expensive and dangerous and don't always even help and in some cases can
make a person worse. The doctors in St. Louis, Mo. told me they won't dare
touch mine. Dan H**
On Friday, January 20, 2017 11:08 AM, lwillis82153 <lwillis82...@gmail.com>
wrote:
How does one know if he has a syrinx?
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-------- Original message --------From: greg <g...@eskimo.com> Date: 1/19/17
4:42 PM (GMT-06:00) To: quad-list <quad-list@eskimo.com> Cc:
quad-list@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] Back, pain, back!!!
I keep a small pillow on my lap at all times. I use it for many things.I put my
phone or tablet on it when using them. I put a lot of things I eat on it. Like
I just had a slice of pizza. I set it on a paper towel and set it on the
pillow. I can then just lift the pillow up to eat it. When I try to hold the
pizza, I drop it too often.
Greg > I, also, stack towels in front of me to lay my arm to relieve neck> pain
pain from my syrinx.> Bobbie>> "You must fail in order to succeed">>> On Jan
18, 2017, at 11:00 PM, Larry Willis>> <lwillis82...@gmail.com> wrote:>>>> Ok
guys, things are getting serious. My neck and right shoulder>> hurt so bad I
want to cry. It seems to start in the back of my>> neck and radiate into my
right shoulder joint. The only thing>> that helps is to stack some thick towels
in front of me and lay>> my arm on top of them. Does anyone have a better
solution? I've>> tried salves and lotions, Percocet and ibuprofen. Nothing.>>
Btw,one year ago this week, my wife MELISSA, had her harrowing>> experience
with a pacemaker. Prayers for her and a few miracles>> for all of us! Night
peeps.>>>> Larry Willis>> Retired and proud of it
