My good friends here, I apologize for this and promise it's the last time I post about my condition. I know I've started more threads and made more posts about my condition than any member, and you're all probably sick to death of it, but please bear with me one more time; the pain's just really severe right now.

The following is a full description of my condition and what led up to it. I want to give on last shot, with all the info, at the chance that somebody will have an idea of what's wrong with me, or what I can do to fix it.

5 years ago I injured the soft-tissue in my low-back in Judo, from lifting opponents much bigger than me (to throw them) and from being thrown so much. This resulted in chronic low back pain.

1 year after that I joined Aikido, thinking I was well enough to join a "lighter" sport. One night we practiced a throw repeatedly where I landed on the same higher vertebrae about 50 times, and the next day my upper back was FUCKED. Then I had constant upper back pain.

1 month after that I was seeing my chiropractor about my back. I mentioned to him that I had a nerve in the upper-left portion of my neck that would pinch out of the blue, about once every 4-5 months for the past several years, and sent me into excrutiating pain. So he adjusted me, and I had a strange tension in my neck afterward. The next day at school I felt more and more like I was a fish out of water, then I finally went to the office telling them to call a doctor because I couldn't breath, then I collapsed on the floor. They hooked me up to oxygen, ambulance brought me to the hospital, and by the time I got there my neck was in agony. I spent the next 2 months in a neck brace, and have had constant pain in my neck ever since deriving from the upper-left part.

It's now been over 5 years since my first injury in Judo. The pain still persists as bad as ever, it's spread to my arms where it causes sharp needle pains and burning, and my legs where it gives me sciatica and burning all around the legs. There's never a moment my spine doesn't hurt all the way down, and my back and neck just hurt like hell but constantly change where the pain is centered (right now it's my neck and low back).


I've been to countless docs, and all they ever do is push more painkillers on me, never offer a solution. I've seen the Rheumatologist, Neurologist, and Neurosurgeon, and none of them have a clue. I've tried physio, acupuncture, massage therapy, chiropractic, yoga, and eating a perfect diet to this day with lots of fruits, veggies, protein, and moderate carbs.
I've had multiple X-rays that show nothing, an MRI that found one thing; that the one upper-vertebrae in my back I hurt in Aikido is arthritic. The neurologist sent me for blood tests to find inflamatory agents, but nothing came up.


All that being said, you have my undying gratitude if you actually read through all of that. And please, let the ideas fly!
Gandalf_The_Grey Reviewed by Gandalf_The_Grey on . Anybody want to give a shot at diagnosing me? My good friends here, I apologize for this and promise it's the last time I post about my condition. I know I've started more threads and made more posts about my condition than any member, and you're all probably sick to death of it, but please bear with me one more time; the pain's just really severe right now. The following is a full description of my condition and what led up to it. I want to give on last shot, with all the info, at the chance that somebody will have an idea of what's Rating: 5