#thoracic outlet syndrome

[selfawarescreen]

meme venting, the best kind of venting

#vent #chronic pain #thoracic outlet syndrome #<- probably #born to die world is a fuck

[retoxdiet]

Guess who’s shitty hand got fixed!! Scalene Botox block in my neck and a half hour later, the muscle relaxed off the ulnar nerve. It’s been years since I could straighten my back two fingers, so now I have to do hella physical therapy. But I am down to only one claw 😭

#thoracic outlet syndrome

[pintsizeginger]

Yesterday was my birthday!

In the past I typically love celebrating my birthday! That normally involves either game nights with friends or a fun trip. Last year and now this year due to health issues those things have been difficult to do.. Last year I was fresh out of surgery and this year I'm just a few days away from a major surgery. Because I can't do much to celebrate I figured I would share my wishlist for surgery recovery items. Since I have fibromyalgia I need all the recovery help I can get! I'm so ready for the surgery but I also know that recovery is going to be rough!

The wishlist link is here

https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/21DWNBKK7SDHD?ref_=wl_share

And if you don't want to use Amazon, my PayPal and Venmo are both @SelinaMariaA and CashApp is $SelinaMAngotti

The reason for the surgery is that after having reoccurring blood clots we discovered that I have Venous Thoracic Outlet Syndrome (vTOS). So to allow my veins to work properly I'm having decompression surgery, which will be removing my first rib on the problem side and possibly removing muscle, and I will probably need vein repair too. It's been hard dealing with this, my arm and shoulder has been just getting worse and worse. I'm so thankful that my hematologist recognized it for what it is!

#surgery #surgery prep #ginger #selfie #my face #me #redhair #feeling cute #Venous Thoracic Outlet Syndrome #vTOS #rib resection #vein repair #birthday #birthday girl #wishlist #my health journey #my medical journey #TOS #Thoracic Outlet Syndrome

[life-take]

Personal Update Part 1

Part 1: TOS

This is a continuation of my last post, where I'm updating you all on the progress of my arm/hand pain since I had surgery in 2019.

My first Thoracic Outlet Syndrome surgery was in Jan. 2019, and recovery was going well. My second was in July 2019, and I thought it would be the same. Unfortunately, about a month after, my pet bird Apple died suddenly. I was basically helpless at the time bc I wasn't yet allowed to drive, and it was a Sunday, so every exotic vet nearby was closed. She died in a neighbor's car on the way to an emergency vet an hour away. (In addition, the office mixed up her remains with another pigeon there and I got a call from a random guy who was the other end of the mix-up-- very frustrating)

I really feel that it was so traumatizing that my recovery suffered. I didn't make the same gains as I did previously, and even started developing a new form of deep, rending arm pain when I drew.

Then the pandemic happened, which was depressing as well.

I started a new type of physical therapy at the behest of my neurologist in March 2020 (although it had to be virtual for several months). I was so pessimistic that it would help at all, but I came around as I learned a ton about the nature of the nervous system and chronic pain. NOBODY, not even my neurologists, had explained to me that chronic pain is actually a different beast from normal pain, and it's shaped by so many things like our fear of pain, stress, and cultural expectations.

Well, I feel like this update is getting a bit long in the tooth, so I'll post this as it is and continue in another part.

#text #personal update #thoracic outlet syndrome #chronic pain

[argotess]

Having a rare neurological and vascular disorder that isn’t noticeable from the outside and is very difficult to be diagnosed is such great fun!! I love it so much!! Every time I tell people about the humongous pain I am in they always say I am exaggerating and they think I am faking it!! I totally suggest everyone to fake having TOS at the prime age of 18!! It’s not like I had to quit all of my lifelong dreams because of a “faked” disorder!!

I have been very lucky to have been able to be diagnosed and not have struggled too much before they figured out my problem but the struggle before it was awful and once I got diagnosed my situation barely changed.

We need to change the adult perspective on teenagers faking chronic pain and rare disorders, we don’t do this for attention. If we tell you something is wrong, please listen to us.

#TOS #thoracic #outlet #thoracic outlet syndrome #medical disorders #neurological #neurological disorders and injuries #neurological disorders #vascular disorder #vascular #injuries

[lonely-paracosmos]

Hey!! People with thoracic outlet syndrome!!!

I hope you are having a good day, I hope your pain is less bad today.

You are amazing and deserve support.

#quy qries #physical disability #disabled culture #thoracic outlet syndrome

[thoracic-outlet-syndromemes]

always make time to rest 💚✨

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[elmachetecriollo]

Medical update (long post, don’t read if you’re not interested)

A lot of my followers probably know that I’ve had neck issues for the past couple of years and migraine problems for a long time before that.

Within the past 3-4 months I’ve made significant progress with this issue because I finally got a diagnosis for what was happening from a reputable orthopedic doctor in my area. I have severe neurogenic thoracic outlet syndrome, which essentially amounts to an orthopedic issue where a biological irregularity in my first rib traps the nerves in my thoracic outlet behind my clavicle. This happens mostly when my shoulder muscles become too relaxed--For example, it happens when I’m sleeping and I roll over into the wrong position, or when I get extremely drunk or high (which I used to do very often). It is mostly in my left shoulder, but I also have an irregularity in my right shoulder. In addition to this being a biological issue, it was probably exaggerated by my years of violin playing.

The pain from this condition is chronic and excruciating. It causes me to have severe migraines where it feels like there’s an extreme amount of pressure behind my eyes. These migraines also cause me to get vertigo and nausea when they’re bad enough.

I’ve been getting migraines and vertigo since college, but college is also when I started weightlifting, and strengthening the muscles in my shoulders helped to lessen the severity of some of the symptoms--So much so that I thought the problem had gone away even though I didn’t know the cause of the problem.

This turned out not to be true; a whiplash injury (long story) made the pain flare up again, this time to the point where I thought I was having a stroke. This injury happened during the pandemic in 2020, but the pain from the TOS lasted far longer than any of the pain from the whiplash--It was so severe because the injury caused the nerves in my shoulder to move from close to my spine over to almost the edge of my clavicle.

Of course, I had no idea what was happening at first, so it was extremely concerning and it gave me numerous anxiety attacks (literally, my nerves were in very bad shape). I dealt with this pain for almost exactly 760 days, mainly because every single doctor I saw couldn’t figure out what was wrong. But after a lot of physical therapy and the right anti-inflammatories, I finally seem to be making progress with the pain. To give you an idea of what it took, I had to first strengthen the muscles in my shoulder, and then I literally had to dig my thumb into the side of my neck in order to move the bundle of nerves back into the right place. (This hurt a lot, but the migraines hurt worse.) After two years and two months, I’m feeling somewhat normal again, although it’s definitely still a work in progress.

I’m already starting to lift weights again and I’m hoping to be able to start running this spring. Throughout all of this, only meditation (specifically meditation in the Vajrayana Buddhist tradition) has provided me with the mental fortitude to deal with the pain. The anti-inflammatories helped too, but those are only a temporary fix. I’ve learned that when it comes to chronic pain of the genetic variety, no supernatural power is going to help you--The only thing that will help you is your own mind, because ultimately you are the only one that has to deal with the pain. I’m also extremely thankful for my parents, because both of them were restless in helping me get the medical care that I needed. Specifically, my mom is the one who found the orthopedic doctor that was able to diagnose the problem. 

At the end of the day, I hope this experience burned some of my negative karma, which is also just the negative karma of sentient beings in general. If you’ve supported me throughout the past couple years, thank you as well, because I quite literally could not have done it without you. My support network has been really essentially through all of this, and I’m so blessed to have some incredible people in my life.

#chronic pain #medical update #thoracic outlet syndrome #migraines #physical therapy

[kimshospital1]

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[longhaulerbear]

Neurogenic thoracic outlet syndrome (N-TOS) is a chronic compressive brachial plexopathy that involves the C8, T1 roots, and/or lower trunk. Medial antebrachial cutaneous (MABC) nerve conduction study (NCS) abnormality is reportedly one of the most sensitive findings among the features of N-TOS. The aim of the present study was to report clinical features, imaging findings, treatment, and prognoses of two N-TOS patients with no abnormalities in electrophysiological studies. Both patients presented with paresthesia of unilateral arm, and examination revealed no neurologic deficits. Electrophysiologic studies including MABC NCS were normal.

Computed tomography (CT) angiography and brachial plexus magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the patients showed compression and displacement of the neurovascular bundle in the thoracic outlet by causative structures. Due to their sensory symptoms and CT angiography and brachial plexus MRI findings, after excluding other diseases, we diagnosed them with N-TOS. With the development of imaging techniques, more patients presenting with clinical features of lower trunk brachial plexopathy and anomalous structures compressing the neurovascular bundle on imaging studies can be diagnosed with N-TOS, even if electrophysiologic studies including MABC NCS do not show abnormalities.

#medical imaging #thoracic outlet syndrome #neurology #science journal #brachial plexus

[mari-beau]

One Drawing Per Week: One

SUBJECT: A study of Jarod Rawiri as D.C. Daniel Chalmers in The Brokenwood Mysteries 7x03 Dog Day Morning

MEDIA: Rebelle 3 on Microsoft Surface Pro

#Going to try to make a habit out of drawing again #depending on how my thoracic outlet syndrome behaves #I guess this software is more like watercolor or painting #but is it still called drawing if it's all digital? #drawing #fanart #Brokenwood Mysteries #Daniel Chalmers #Jarod Rawiri #one drawing per week

[life-take]

Oh i just realized in my chronic pain summary posts, i didnt really go into what the scalenectomy/first rib resection surgery experience was like for me, bc i think at this point TOS was only about 50% or less of my problems. But i think some people were interested in the surgery? Should I go into what that experience and recovery was like, for people considering it?

#thoracic outlet syndrome #chronic pain

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[thoracic-outlet-syndromemes]

now that’s a Batista Bummer :/

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