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(Message started by: shinydellgirl on Jan 29^th, 2006, 10:54am)

Title: Cervical Spondylosis
Post by shinydellgirl on Jan 29^th, 2006, 10:54am

2 1/2 years ago my husband suddenly started getting horrible headaches. He was 46. That's when I found this site. The symptoms fit cluster headaches exactly. He had a CAT scan but opted out of the MRI because he had no insurance. He tried oxygen and it helped for a while but mostly just endured the pain because of the insurance issue.

In October he was in a car accident and began having shoulder numbness and numbness in both hands. He had an MRI and it showed Cervical Spondylosis and edema of the spinal cord. 3 weeks ago he had anterior cervical fusion at C3-C4 and he hasn't had a headache since after 2 1/2 years of daily chronic headaches.

Bottom line: Make sure you get an MRI which includes your cervical spine.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed that he remain pain free.

Title: Re: Cervical Spondylosis
Post by floridian on Feb 1^st, 2006, 5:22pm

Curious that you mention that condition - just came across this article that describes a trial for treating cervical spondylosis with the active ingredient in (!) kudzu. Too bad there is no abstract - I will email the author to find out about this. Wonder if it was helpful.

Quote:

Zhong Xi Yi Jie He Xue Bao. 2006 Jan;4(1):80-1.

[Clinical observation of puerarin in treating patients with vertebral artery insufficiency due to cervical spondylosis: a report of 123 cases]

[Article in Chinese]

Zhou PQ, Shen L, Yang YP, Xie J.

Department of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei province 430022, China.