Back from Workup at CINN

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Hi everyone,

Just got back from my evaluation with Heffez. To

make a long story short.... Heffez said I had an

extremely abnormal neuro exam. He said , " you must have

been to neurologists! What did THEY have to say. I

said that they basically would do balance tests etc.

over and over till they could say I had a second of

balance or they would say well, your reflexes are

brisk but otherwise you're fine. I said they didn't do

testing extensively like you did. He said I didn't

seem to have the chiari problem to a significant

degree and that stenosis in the cervical are seemed to

be the main proble. I guess, in extension, my canal

at c5 and 6 was 8 and 1 half mm and that there was

significant compression there. he said that lying flat

it was 10 and one half mm. He thought my neuro exam

abnormalties were way out of proportion to the

compression. I reminded him of dr. Rosner's findings

that if the canal is small , the cord can be

compressed even if it doesn't look like it and that if

you enlarge the canal the cord will expand , showing

that it was compressed afterall.He said " I know what

you are trying to say and that I guess you could say

that Dr. Rosner is more aggressive than I am. He

would probably operate on you. Heffez was very nice

and so was his helper , . He sent me home, for

now with a soft collar and a prescription for

ergonomics training. He wants to reevaluate through

phone and a questionaire in 3 months. He said I am a

candidate for surgery but first we try conservative

approach. I'm not too disappointed. Margie

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