I have already had transposition surgery. After showing my dr wierd bruising and telling her my symptoms are worse and my arm becomes parilized at times, she now has refused to talk to me. My forearm is wasteing bad. After being turned away by many new drs for fear of stepping on toes I have found a neuro-surgen to se me next week.

sillyme wrote:
I have already had transposition surgery. After showing my dr wierd bruising and telling her my symptoms are worse and my arm becomes parilized at times, she now has refused to talk to me. My forearm is wasteing bad. After being turned away by many new drs for fear of stepping on toes I have found a neuro-surgen to se me next week.

If that's your honest situation, you need to consult a lawyer 1st. If he decides that you have a case, he'll recommend a good doctor that will work with you both.

God Bless your recovery

I have conciderd a lawyer but decided to get the nerve testing first so that I have atleast an idea what went wrong. I do have a w/c lawyer helping me find dr's and helping me prepare. I dont want to lose my arm but I also dont want to assume guilt . Its all so confusing. I have tried on my own to research what could have gone wrong but the elbow area contains so many nerves who knows what is dammaged............. Thank you for your prayers.

pmb003 wrote:
Not trying to be rude or anything, but nerve transportation is out dated and not even recommended in severe cases as mine was.
And as far as Conservative Treatment goes, when an individual goes in to see the doctor and is having constant numbness with No relief, this individual will also be showing signs of muscle wasting and at this point there is no medication that can give relief, and a slit just will not do it either.
I say all of this because I begged my doctor to try all of the conservative treatments before I had surgery, and he was right. Nothing helped..... I had to have the surgery...

I wasn't going to give this a minute of address, but decided against it. First off, LOOK at your post before you SLAM me. You slam the surgery and so state that it is out dated. Then in the end you state you had surgery, but with no positive or negative results? A rational reader would "assume" your post op was negative. From what I read of your later posts, hopefully this was not the case. I too had a severe case, and while not 100% "yet" I am optimistic on a full or nearly so recovery. I was NOT slamming you, just responding to what I saw in your post. I too tried the conservative route with negative results. I did not want surgery either, but had no choice hence disability retirement. Please Re-read your own post to see why *I* came to my thoughts. Glad to see you are in the good side of the results mode.

Kylem,

You need to read MORE on this site. If you think I am trying to be a "Pro", then yes you are right. I am a PRO on my status. My surgeon did NOT go through this procedure, nor does he know the post surgical results that *I* am going through. All of US react differently after surgery - none are the same. This site is great that we all SHARE what we went through. Am I a pro with all, hell no, just ME. I think it is admirable that you are coming to another's defense, but I *am* a pro in so far as my results, no one else's. Now you can "run to mommy" and complain, that is fine. Timm has seen my posting on this forum for many months. If he wants to toss me off for saying my piece and too, submitting my feelings on what I read here, that is fine, this is HIS board. You are new, and don't know me, what I went through, or what my thoughts are when I read PUBLIC posts. Go to mommy. I am here to give HONEST and heart felt replies to those that ask. Good day!

kyleM wrote:
If your nerve was trapped in your elbow, wrist and hand
then, you had cubital tunnel syndrome (elbow), guyon's canal syndrome (wrist) and carpal tunnel syndrome (hand).
Did the nerve transportation method fix all 3 problems ???
If so, then it sounds like you had a miracle doctor.
Where can I find him, he's my choice.

Considering your reply to me earlier, I probably shouldn't reply - but I am not that way. I would say that I am 85% positive from pre-surgery. The doctor I had is a renowned sports medicine doctor, and believe it or not (and this is COMMON in south Florida) you are a "person" verses a cutting arena!!! His name is Dr. Glosser and is based out of Homestead Florida. He has wonderful success with not only the diagnosis, but the surgical treatment of nerve issues (I declined the nerve block shots). He had me do what many have gone through, eg. the nerve testing, PT to try and "get things back to normal", and real word "here is the patient" testing. Like many on here, my EMG didn't reveal anything exciting, but the Tinel signs were very bad (positive), not to mention for instance when he had me try to cross fingers (didn't happen) strength checks on extension, pinching, grip etc, not good. I personally feel that *most* of my issues were due to my Ulnar being too close to the surface in my hand.

I was able to fully flex my elbow within 3 days of having my cast off! I still have numbness on the palm side of my pinkie, but my wrist, hand, ring finger and top of my pinkie are back. Even if I were to stay this way, my career is no longer in jeopardy.

No carpal tunnel for me. The Ulnar entrapment messed up my pinkie and ring (clawing), and thus he released my A1 pulley's in those fingers. If I do a lot of tight gripping, they cramp, if I back off, they are good. So far, so good on carpal tunnel. Hope this helps.

sillyme wrote:
hi brenda,
Because I have had a hard time seing a dr i'm not sure if mine would be severe or not. What is the parameters for severe? Why did they give you a year? I feel my arm slipping away is it realy possible for me to lose it permantly?

Howdy Sillyme,

Like pmb003 posts, our nerves regenerate at approximately 1mm a day, or an inch a month. I don't personally know what the specific parameters are, but with me, my doctor (surgeon) stated mine was serious due to the continued numbness (with no conservative results) in my wrist, hand, pinkie and 1/2 of my ring finger along with "wasting." From what you have described, you are there! As for a year, that was to give *me* an idea of how much feeling return I would have based on the healing of the nerve. I was actually told that it could be near 3 years for total heal (or not) of my Ulnar. As I have stated in other posts, even if I stay as I am now, I am comfortable with being able to make it to retirement in my job. I can type again, weapons handling is good, day to day with that hand and such is workable. I hope you get a lawyer, and too a doctor that WON'T cover that **tch that is blowing you off. Good luck with it. *HUG*

After my neck was fused, that was INSTANT pain relief, unfortunately, our Ulnars aren't so forgiving. Patience is the key.