Neurontin
Thank you all so much everybody..
Your support makes me feel stronger mentally. I've just come back seeing another neurosurgen. He told me to rest and take it easy and take meds for a while and see what happens to my symptoms. I will start doing some neck strengthening exercises, light ones. This neurosurgen told me that if I want to go back to my active life (golf, tennis) I better have the surgery (fusion, but then with an active life like that you are putting yourself at great risk for making the other discs slip!! What kind of an advice was that? I really do not understand. He said the other discs look in good form so it shouldn't be a problem!!..If I would know any success stories like a double fusion with an active life for 20 years I would not have a hard time beleiving this guy). He added 300mg of Neurontin, one everynight, to my medication. I just surfed the web and found out that this medicine is given to people with much more serious indications. And everybody is complaining about serious weight gain in short periods of time even if they eat normal. Has anyone of you taken this and seen this side effect?
Thank you for letting me know about cervical endoscopic discectomy. It looks very promising as a non evasive technique. Any one of you know a good place to do this in Europe other than Alphaklinik.
I am required to send my results to the Alphaklinik in Germany for a diagnosis and treatment options. I will be sending everything by DHL this Monday. And see what they have to say. Although they are the best in the world (looking at their reference list and patients who got treated by them), I am keeping in mind that at the end of the day they are surgeons too and they might want to go ahead and do something right away. Ahhh..Ethics.. I hope they are ethical.
Looking forward to hearing from you all..
Thank you once again.
Sonata
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