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From: era@ncar.ucar.edu (Ed Arnold)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: A Pain in the Neck
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Date: 20 Nov 90 19:12:27 GMT
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Index Number: 11960

In article <15407@bunker.UUCP> jqtaylor@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (John Taylor) writes:
>Index Number: 11505
>
>No doctor has really been able to say, "You have blah blah blah
>wrong with you" but from all my research, and since I am the one
>who deals with it, it seems to me I have a disk problem, maybe
>in C1 or C2 (I occasionally lose feeling in my fingers in the right
>hand). Other symptoms: pain always in right jaw (near TMJ but the
>joint itself has been ruled out), some loss of hearing (ringing)
>when in severe pain, pain episodes occur after chewing, talking,
>and most interestingly enough (to me), before stormy weather

It's my understanding that a TOP specialist (i.e. one of the ones at
a major medical center, some place like Stanford or Johns Hopkins)
can now pin these types of problems down reliably with the use of tools
like MRI.  Have you considered such an analysis (will your insurance pay
for it)?

>1) Being new to this Notes beast, could you give me some pointers
>toward other areas within notes where I might find relevant
>information.

Since you appear to be on Usenet, try posting an inquiry to sci.med.
There are some real doctors (well, they have the initials M.D. after
their names, I don't really know they're real :-) :-) ) who read
that group.  Perhaps they could point you in the direction of some
knowledgeable people in this area of medicine.
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