[THEFERMANATOR]

Haven't updated this one in quite awhile now, but my health has slipped again. The tests last year were all negative for rhuematoid, but they did diagnose me with chronic pain syndrome and fibromyalgia. Basically said my brain is pretty much only processing pain responses no matter what I'm actually feeling. The only thing they said I could do was continue with pain management to try and dull the pain sensations and block the nerves. All was doing ok until Christmas time when my back started flaring up, and my sciatic got so bad I spent a good portion of Christmas day flat on my back. Fast forward to today, I've now had 4 mri's, 4 sets of x-rays, and several trips to the ortho dr, here's a copy of the highlights I posted on facebook earlier.

Got all of my mri and xray reports together now, in short, I'M FUBAR! Left shoulder has bursitus, voids, fluid pockets, cysts, rotator cuff tendon damage, arthritis, degenerative joint disorder, and a few others. Right shoulder is still screwed, not much else can be said for it. Left hip has regrown the bone spurs, joint narrowing is occuring, and severe arthritis is setting in.

Then there's the matter of my back and neck. There's 12 protrusions and or bulges from the s1 on up(they didn't do the s1-s5, but I wish now they would have as the damage from the l4-l5 and l5-s1 was worsening going down). So c3-c4, c4-c5, c6-c7, t5-t6, t6-t7, t7-t8, t9-t10, t11-t-12, t12-l1, l4-l5, and l5-s1. Annular tear from t7-t8. Mild scoliosis is setting in, spinal arthritis in several spots, several spots where the spinal cord runs through is narrowing, and some more.

At least now I know what is causing the problem with where if somebody touches my back in a certain spot, my legs go out. It's right where I have the annular tear, and one of the symptoms of one is paralysis from the waist down.