Syringomyelia Support Group

Syringomyelia is a disorder in which a cyst or tubular cavity forms within the spinal cord. This cyst, called a syrinx, expands and elongates over time, destroying the center of the spinal cord resulting in pain, weakness, and stiffness in the back, shoulders, arms, or legs.

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Bone spurs

Monte
Monte
Back in 2005 I had the shunt surgery in my c-spine (c3 thruc7) .Now my pain doc says that I have 6 bone spurs where they had to cut the bones to get at my spinal cord .Has anyone else had to have the shunt surgery and do you now have on going problems from bone spursand the shunt not doing what it was supposed to do ?
rrodgers
rrodgers
I had a decompression where they had cut a 2 inch piece out of my skull and cut out part of my vertebrate. I had worse pain after my surgery. 2 months afterward, the dr. had told me that my pain could be from scarring, but I told him that I had pain immediately after the surgery.
When I was 16, I had a shoulder injury. I suffered horrific pain for 25 years before I was finally referred to an orthopedic surgeon who said I had a detached labrum in my shoulder which caused a bone spur to form which caused the bursae above my rotator cuff to scar so much that it was scraping my rotator cuff.
Will pray for you. It's just like a domino effect. Pain loves company. My detached labrum just kept creating new friends.......the bone spur and the bursitis. Guess that's what happens when you wait a quarter of a century to have surgery. LOL.