big ditto on what IB&P just told you. bloodwork WILL NOT show one single thing within that c spine if this just IS the area that is triggering your symptoms, which it most certainly does appear to be given what you are describing as what is called 'radiculopathic symptoms'. this is what you just WOULD feel if the c spine were being impacted at some particular level with just the many different possible things that CAN occur at any level of our spinals, but that c spine is just much more less protected and much more likely to have problems becasue of it too?
the symptoms you are now having? the numbness or any real pain? does ANY of this actually happen in very particular fingers in either hand? if so, exactly what is it you are feeling and in what exact fingers? this does matter to help narrow down areas of possible involvement when it is just even in the c spine since the lower part of that c spine is what innervates down the arm and to very specific fingers. its just the way that c spine and the rest of our spinal is. very "nerve correlated specific".
just getting that one contrasted MRI done on that c spine would at least show possible areas where the nerve roots are being impacted by what can be many different things(you DO actually have right now at the very LEAST, some level of true impact upon nerve roots up there or you would NOT even be having the symptoms you are?). and it would show any levels of real herniation of any discs really well too. but make certain this is ordered using a contrasting agent? this just really does help in highlighting particular findings that can be somewhat hidden without using it? but this just NEEDS to be done at this point. very much so.
i am really shocked that after you told your primary your symptoms that this was not just immediately ordered for you then? its pretty much a no brainer when you just are having the impactful type symptoms you are and more importantly WHERE you are, which any primary should know would more than likely track straight back to some level of that c spine. maybe you should switch primarys here too? it IS pretty basic, seriously. but DO if you have to here, push your primary for that one contrasted MRI since this just IS the more likely place where the impact would be stemming from. if she wont, move onto another doc that actually cares about their own patients and their suffering. good luck and please let us know how things go? also make darn certain to always obtain any copies of any types of MRIs or any other real testing you ever have done on you from here on out. we all need to keep kind of our own 'medical file history' at home just so we know we have this stuff and can also read thru this stuff ourselves as well. you just DO have a right to your own copies of anything IN your own medical files. FB
