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2nd opinion

Reading about other people's C2 fractures on the web was a very bad idea. The very very few that I found were ridiculous and incomplete. Lots of people asking questions and no real answers.

The few that I did find reported only having to wear a cervical collar, or were sent home with nothing at all! What they were noticing was bad neck pain years later and going to the web to post questions if possibly the reason for their neck pain was that the had a minor c2 fracture years ago. This was horrible for me to read! Here I am with a hairline fracture with this medieval contraption on my head for 12 weeks and these people get sent home with aspirin! What the fuck!

Was my doctor punishing me because I was in a motorcycle accident? Why the extreme measures of the halo neck brace? Why the full 12 weeks? Why not just a cervical collar??

I wanted a 2nd opinion.

So, yesterday my husband went to his neurosurgeon for his follow-up appointment for his own back surgery (Sept 10, 2009.) While he was there he asked him about my situation, and asked the question, "what would you have done?" His response was that he would do nothing different {CRAP!} and that the halo brace is the best and safest method of treating a c2 fracture. He also said there is nothing that can really be done for the pain and in fact had an office assistant recently who had a halo brace and would often get up from her desk and scream in pain - and still nothing could be done. {CRAP!}

This was double bad news to me, but at least I now had my 2nd opinion. I don't know the full stories of the posts I saw on the web, the surrounding circumstances, how bad the cervical injury was... or what, but whatever the case, reading random postings on the web is dangerous. In this blog I hope to be comprehensive and that anyone that does read this and has questions about my case they will contact me at anytime: trid675@gmail.com

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I slept ok last night. On the couch again, but woke up from a nightmare and had trouble going back to sleep. My neck has slight twinges of pain, but not much.

I hope this sleep pattern lasts.

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