Damn. The MRIs came back 100% normal.

[Deja Q]

:cry:

So the problems remain unresolved but the doctor basically shrugged me off at that point.

So I don't care anymore either. It's all a fat lot waste of time anyway.

[ScreamingMeemie]

1. Hypno...I dont' know the whole story, but if you feel something is wrong,

you probably know better than the doctor. It took 7 years for my problems to be dianosed.

[Deja Q]

4. Maybe it's muscular. Which is better than a konked up spine...

I don't know why I keep getting weaker.

But it'll get pinned as being anxiety.

And if I'm put on an anxiety med, far worse things start to happen.

[ScreamingMeemie]

6. The best thing to do...Is go along with them, take the meds, and see what

happens. If you don't get better, their hand is forced. I had a GI put me on anti depression medicine thinking it was "all in my head", he was kind of sorry the day he visited me in my room after part of my esophagus was removed. :hi:

You are your own best advocate. I'm pulling for you. :hug:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

2. So you are disappointed that you don't have a spine problem requiring

painful surgery with uncertain outcome?

[ScreamingMeemie]

3. I think perhaps he is disappointed because there is an obvious

(to him) problem that the doctors can't seem to diagnose. :hi:

[zanne]

10. No; I know what he's going through....

When you KNOW something is terribly wrong, but the test the doctor chose to take come back negative, you have to worry about the doctor thinking "Oh, he's a hypochondriac; I'll just humor him". I had that situation about twenty years ago. For over a year, I had stomach pain that was so bad, sometimes I couldn't stand up straight. My doctor took some basic tests; they came up negative. After awhile, he started to talk to me about finding ways to "relax". I got so fed up I finally took it upon myself to find another doctor without a reference from doctor #1. By this time, I had been fired from my job because of all the absences and I had no health insurance. My new doctor took some more tests and discovered I had Pernicious Anemia. He began treating me for it immediately. (Treatment consists of one shot of B-12 every month). I was very lucky; Pernicious Anemia causes neurological damage when it stays undetected. By the way, my stomach pain disappeared shorty after I began treatment.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

5. thats a good thing....really mri's coming back not-normal is what

one should cry about...

i hope whatever is hurting you gets fixed and is a small thing

:hug:

[flamingyouth]

7. My MRI came back pretty messed up.

Three bulging disks, possible surgery. You just have to take these things a step at a time and hope for the best. Best of luck to you.

[bliss_eternal]

8. HypnoToad--

While I am glad your MRI's are normal, I sense you are frustrated, and I totally understand.

I had horrible headaches for years that no one seemed to be able to figure out. They felt sinus related to me, and usually was the first sign for me of a sinus infection.

Several years, doctors and cat scans later...

One day, I mentioned offhandedly to my doctor,"...it feels like it's always the left side. As if something were stuck in the left side of my nose." As I was leaving she asked me about it.

"bliss...did you say your left side?" she asked me,"your cat scan shows you have a mild deviation of your septum, on the left..."

That was enough for me. I asked her to recommend an ent, for surgery evaluation. I described my issues to the ent. The instant the ent looked at my cat scan, she knew what the problem was. I agreed to surgery.

The point I am making here is, things can come back normal, but there still may be something in your tests that mean nothing to one guy, but another would see it and see a lot more. If you know in your heart something just doesn't feel right, keep looking and checking in with people for other opinions.

It took me several years and a few different doctors, but someone FINALLY validated what I'd known for years--something was askew. I was finally able to get the help I needed for it, too.

I'm very sorry that you are going through this. :hug: Don't give up.

[undeterred]

9. I went through a very long medical workup with normal MRIs

but I was having significant pain and symptoms. This was 18 years ago. Eventually I found a doctor who took me seriously and did a surgery which relieved the pain. He did not treat me as though the problem were "all in my head" just because it didn't show up on a film. I also have migraines which show no abormalities on a scan but are terribly debilitating.

It took me a long time to find doctors who would help me with my symptoms, but eventually I did. If you keep going, you will too.