If my mother is suffering from this but it sounds very simular to her condition but in her left arm, shoulder and hand. She has pain, numbness and at times pain that shoots right down her arm. She was diagnosed with 2 degenerative disc in her upper back but that's as far as the doctor seems to go with it. It's been over 2 years and just last month I went in to see what tests he had run and to ask for a referral and he hadn't even check her for ostreoperosis(sp?)arthritis, rhuemitory arthritis, non of that! I was in shock, she's 58 years old! To top it off for the past 2 years he had her on nitro spray for her heart disease only to find that a specialist told her to stop, there was absolutely nothing wrong with her heart!
Her arm is now shrinking up, she's lost musle mass and strength and tells me it feels as though the bones in her arm are shrinking, weakening and going soft. Also, her fingers of that arm are seperating as though the tendons or muscles aren't keeping them in line, simular to the symtoms of ms. Her grandmother had these symtoms, and later found herself perilized and passing away not long after. I'm scared for my mother and I can't find help for her anywhere!
If you have any advice or ideas please reply!
Thanks for reading
suzi
