Ouch!....
Please do, I am curious as to what they will find.
U r welcome!!
Godspeed
"selma"
I had an injury at work, from a fall. I landed flat on my butt and jarred my whole spine, blowing disks at C56 and C67 and in my low back at L5-S1.
I'll let you know how the MRI comes out. Thanks for the welcome note, too.
--herding cats
Hi, I believe the issues with breathing and the c-spine are the nerves that the bulging disks r coming into contact with.
Since all the nerves run thru the spinal cord, it is in diff areas that affect diff parts of ur body.
I hope I am making sense. Do u know what caused ur original probs?
Did u have an accident to have the injury to ur c-spine?
I ask, because I have cervical spinal stinosis.....and I have issues with breathing...I am a mouth breather for one....my voice gets hoarse quite often.My other dx is chiari which involves the c-spine as well.
I am curious as to what ur drs find out.I am looking at the possibility of surgery and like to see how others have managed.
Good luck
Godspeed
"selma"
Thanks for telling me my voice can be better in 9 or so months. The Dr's. are saying that and I not sure, so I'll just wait and see. My family likes my loss of voice also!!!
Thanks for the incouragement
Thanks,
It was a help. Actually, maybe for both of us. I have had each disc surgery one at a time, and on my second surgery, my vocal cord was damaged. I was student teaching at the time, and I lost my voice completely. (By the way, my kids loved it. I think they were hoping I could NEVER yell at them again.) Anyway, it took nine months for my voice to come back. I was in speech therapy at the university I was going to, but I am not sure that helped as much as my mom's prayers and my grandmother's favorite hymns, which I started singing, every day. The exercise helped it. Anyway, it is interesting that both of us, who lost our voices, are the same ones with other breathing problems.
I also have muscle spasms that cut off my air sometimes, and the pulmonary doctor says its not a respiratory symptom. It started after the neck surgery,too.
Thanks again for the input. Please write back if you want to compare notes.
--herdingcats
I also have breathing problems from what I think is my neck condition. My primary Dr. kind of agrees with me, that cervical neck problems can cause breathing problems. I think that the spasm and pain hinders our breathing because of the pain from the expansion of the lungs. Also I think we all have some anxiety from the condition and that can cause breathing problems. But then again if we are having cord stenosis in the upper neck like you and I have there can be a neurological problem or compression of the cord. I haven't had to go the hospital for pneumonia but do have breath difficulty breathing problems at time. Everything must pass through that area for every part of our body to function and if it is narrowed why not? Click on the the "loss of voice" post and read my time line of surgeries you maybe headed there, but I hope you don't go through what I did.
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