| Last Updated June 29, 2005 |
My TOS :
Like many others here I was not diagnosed properly for many years. I was told that I had a rotator cuff strain. I am a bus driver and I had an injury at work seven years ago. I worked through it for the most part of the first three years post injury. My headaches, numbness, tingling, pain, dizziness eventually caught up to me. I have had numerous MRI's, CT's, EMG's, X-rays, Doppler's. You name it and I have had it. My first surgery involved removing the Anterior and Middle Scalene muscles. This helped a little, but did not help a great deal. 15 months later I had a First rib resection along with removal of scar tissue which had wrapped itself around my brachial plexus. I have had very little improvement and have been sent for another MRI, EMG, etc. The EMG actually showed something this time. The doctors now think that I have scar tissue causing my pain, etc. I have to have another MRI to see if there is enough scar tissue to warrant surgery to remove it. If not I don't know what else they can do. I am far too young to have to deal with this kind of discomfort for the rest of my life. Not to mention the numerous battles with WCB. Incidentally, I have found out that the WCB knew that I had a problem in the area of my first rib after the first MRI in April 1999, they chose not to tell me. I did not get my first surgery until December 2002. Anybody know a good lawyer in the Vancouver Canada area that is not afraid to take on WCB?
Dr. Salvian, Dr. Taunton, Dr. Keyes