I have not been around for a while, but I hope I am about to recover. Some of you may remember that I started having health problems in Nov 2012.
After a year of doing everything possible to avoid surgery, I finally decided nothing else was working, so on Oct 21, I had C-4 thru C-7 in my neck fused and have been in a rigid neck brace ever since. I have 8 more days to wear this thing and I have to say this has been the longest 2 months of my life.
I don't know if it is going to work or not, so far all is well and the pain is mostly gone, but I have not moved my head in almost 2 months. I wear the brace 24/7. I do not know if I will have enough movement in my head to ever shoot a bow again, but the Dr. who did the surgery was pretty optimistic.
Either way, I could not continue with the pain level that I had, so this became my only choice. Neither steroid Injections nor a rhizotomy worked for any length of time.
Hopefully things are looking up! I have missed most of hunting season the last two years because of this.
Wayne
After a year of doing everything possible to avoid surgery, I finally decided nothing else was working, so on Oct 21, I had C-4 thru C-7 in my neck fused and have been in a rigid neck brace ever since. I have 8 more days to wear this thing and I have to say this has been the longest 2 months of my life.
I don't know if it is going to work or not, so far all is well and the pain is mostly gone, but I have not moved my head in almost 2 months. I wear the brace 24/7. I do not know if I will have enough movement in my head to ever shoot a bow again, but the Dr. who did the surgery was pretty optimistic.
Either way, I could not continue with the pain level that I had, so this became my only choice. Neither steroid Injections nor a rhizotomy worked for any length of time.
Hopefully things are looking up! I have missed most of hunting season the last two years because of this.
Wayne
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