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Originally Posted by the2bears
Wow, best of luck to you. I had a fracture in my C2 almost 13 years ago, scary stuff.
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The really scary thing, for me, is that I've been carrying this damage around for a couple of years already. Best guess is that I cracked a cervical vertebra when I fell down a flight of icy concrete stairs. The fall also knocked me out, so I thought for a long time that I was just suffering from post-concussion syndrome and maybe whiplash. I was taken to hospital last summer with incapacitating neck and head pains, but they inexplicably failed to notice the damage to my spine. They sent me home and told me to take ibuprofen, but of course, the pains continued.
I'm just glad my current doctor finally seems to be on the right track.
(By the way, on those days when I am a real pain in the neck here on CP, it's often because I am passing on the pain in my own neck. I don't mean to, but it makes me grouchy, and I can neither work nor sleep until I get over it – so I have a bad habit of being a nuisance online instead. Apologies to all.)