C Spine Caused all My Trouble,  

It has taken 19 years for the doctors to finally explain what was happening to me.  I have a large spur on the c3-4 and a congenital fusion at the c5-6.  I had fuzzy vision, nerve palsy on right side of face.  I even had double vision when lying down.  With no answers in the beginning, it was a nightmare.  We retired to a small central Texas town, and my prayers were answered.  I had such horrible buzzing on the right side of my head.  Some Drs.told me it was migranes and some told me it was tension headaches.  I had never had headaches in my life.  I became so ill I gave up my career.  My husband even doubted me as he was even confused, as we were partners in life, and now I couldn't do anything.  Now the pain is in the right occipital area in the back of my head down through the right shoulder. I was even told it was fibromyalgia.  What a laugh. I would stumble when I would get up to walk, and sometimes get so dizzy.  Now I have a shrunk esophagus, and sharp pain that goes up into the back of my head especially if I lay wrong and pressure is put against the neck.  I was told a year ago it would be too dangerous to do surgery, but now things are getting worse.  The spells put me in bed and finally the neurosurgeon in San Angeo Texas did a mylogram.  He is to put spacers in the c3-4 area and fuse the 6-7.  I have lived with this all my life.  A whiplash at the age of 24 began a long series of trips to the doctors.  I had severe dizzy spells by the time I was 14.  There wasn't an answer.  When I was 45 things got real bad.  Now I am 64 and am ready to get my life back.  I pray that this story will help someone out there that has these symptoms and does not know what is wrong.  YOU ARE NOT CRAZY.  GET TO ONE OF THE BEST NEUROSURGEONS YOU CAN FIND.  GOOD LUCK.