Spinal misalignment adjustment not holding/Undiagnosed symptoms need help???

[Derek07]

Went from Urgent Care > ER > ENT > Neurologist > NUCCA to Blair Chiropractor. Dealing with what they first diagnosed as vertigo about a year and a half ago now until the NUCCA diagnosed it as spinal misalignment about a year ago and a Blair Chiropractor diagnosed the same 6 months ago - C1/C2 Misalignment with Lumbar Misalignment right leg.

I am thinking when my back and neck hurt is when I feel the most dizzy and off balance. My urine, blood, CT of head/cervical spine, Xrays of back/neck, MRI of brain have all came back good. It was only the NUCCA and Blair xrays that actually showed something which was the misalignment. My Blair Chiropractor is good but been seeing him for about 6 months and after he adjusts me I'm good for a few days but than I fall back into the suffering symptoms.

I just seen a neurosurgeon which had me do all new xrays, CT and MRI and he said he was stumped there was nothing he could do but I didn't need surgery. I even told him I know something is wrong any suggestions of who to see and he didn't know. I can barely stand up still and am always dizzy and am only 30 years old.

The NUCCA/Blair Chiropractor is only temp relief and I've tried it for over a year and have all the same issues i did a year ago.

I have also had an EEG which was good as well as a B12 Folate Test which was also good. I have an EMG scheduled in a few weeks. I have the below symptoms:

Dizziness 24/7
Off Balance
Neck/Back Pain
Hand Weakness
Leg Numbness (Worse at Night)

I am just at the point where its hard to function in life and I've seen everyone I could think of. I want to avoid surgery but I am kind of lost now of what to do. Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated. Or any tests that I haven't done that you think I should do.  Thank you.

[Paxiled]

I'm no expert, but if your neck was so bad you were dizzy it would show on an MRI.  X-rays are of limited utility here as they can only show the bone, really.  Almost everyone as they age shows disc deterioration and misalignment, if such a thing actually exists, but that isn't usually the cause of pain.  If it's so bad it's impinging on a nerve, that could explain the leg numbness, but that would be from the lower back or hip area and wouldn't have anything to do with dizziness.  Surgery when you don't need it solves nothing, because what would anyone do surgery on if your diagnostics don't show sufficient impingement anywhere?  I also don't see how a chiropractor can fix dizziness unless, again, you have a severe neck problem.  And the person to see for that isn't a neurosurgeon necessarily, it might be an orthopedic surgeon.  That being said, there are a lot of things that can cause vertigo, including Mineire's ear, diseases in the inner ear, medications, anxiety, etc.  I would focus on the vertigo and probably, whch is what I always say, if your current docs can't fix it, find better docs.  For intractable problems, docs created the Mayo Clinic and Johns Hopkins and University hospitals to work in teams and do better medicine, and maybe it's your time to go to one of these places.  Peace.

[AnnieBrooke]

Maybe find a Feldenkrais instructor?