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amymichelle 
6:22pm, November 2, 2009
I have been struggling with pain, numbness, tingling, and weakness for 7 months now. After many a mis-diagnosis and about 6 doctors everyone seems in agreement of Thoracic Outlet Syndrome. I was relieved to hear this since everyone first suggested MS. I feel I am too young to have something so permanent like this, but it is what it is. I have been frustrated lately with my medication making me so tired when I am only taking 1/3 of the dose they prescribed for me. We are trying to get my body adjusted to it won't make me sick. They want me on 900 mg and right now I am at 300 mg. 1 pill three times a day. Lunch, dinner, bed. They want me up to 3 pills 3 times a day. I can't imagine putting all of that into my body. It already makes me so tired. So I have an appointment with my physical therapist tomorrow and my physiatrist on Monday. I was researching xray pictures of Cervical Ribs tonight and found some good pictures. I took out my old chest xrays they took 6 months ago in Urgent Care when this was all thought to be a herniated disk and I would only be out of work for 1 week. Well they were wrong... I compared my xrays to the pictures as best I could and they almost match perfectly to the pictures of the extra Cervical Rib. The only doctor that has looked at these are the Urgent care doctor and nurse 6 monts ago. I brought them with to other doctors but no one wanted to look at them. I am taking them to my physiatrist on Monday and making her look at them if for nothing else but to humor me. But I am 99.99% positive I see that rib that is causing all this pain! All of my doctors wont consider surgery because they feel it is too invasive and it doesn't generally work. So I think that may be my next area of research!
