Herniated Disc In Neck

[237SJ]

If you get a herniated disc in the neck, can you still move and go about your daily life or does it render you imobile?

[237SJ]

*Immobile*

[yogasun]

I would imagine you would have wear some sort of collar.
I would think you would have to be very careful, depends on the extent and
position of herniated disk.
Sqad might be around to comment.

[Sqad]

Depends what you mean by immobile......if you mean one cannot walk then no, cervical lesions would not render you immobile.

Cervical disc lesions produce symptoms due either to nerve irritation or bone pain. The cervical plexus is a outpouring of nerves from the neck similar to a map of the London Underground and depending upon which nerve is involved (irritated) will depend upon the symptoms. The commonest one to be involve would give tingling and lightning pains down the arm and weakness of the upper arm muscles......but you would still be mobile.

Bone pain would either be from the bone itself or from the cartilage, which may or may not be a prominent feature, either way you would still be mobile.

Cervical lesions involving herniated discs do not involve the legs.

I hope that i haven't misinterpreted your definition of .."immobility."

[icemaiden]

I think in some cases, I'm sure Sqad will correct me if I am wrong, some people do not feel any pain when a disc in the neck has herniated.

Unlike me, when a disc went in my neck, it was the worst pain I have ever experienced. I could move, but by christ it was excrutiating.

[Sqad]

Yes...I agree with the post of icemaiden.

[237SJ]

Thanks for the replies. I was rushing off to work when I posted the question and didn`t word it very well. I meant would the neck be rendered immobile. I woke up with neck pain in the first week of February and have had it ever since. I thought it was muscular but I`m beginning to wonder if it is a slipped disc. I have been through a phase of it giving me pains down the arm. I also had pins and needles in the hand and twitching fingers but that was just on one day and I think it might have been something to do with the way I slept as I have had that before. I can move the neck but only side to side a little way - I can`t look behind me at all.

[icemaiden]

An MRI will show up a herniated disc. Either see your GP and wait 18 weeks or do what I did and pay for one privately. I can recommend a place in Waterloo. London. Called vista diagnostics. Top class customer care. Very reasonable cost.

[237SJ]

Thanks for the tip icemaiden. I`m going to go down the Vista route. I`m not even going to waste my time with the NHS. I can`t even get an appointment with a GP to get referred at the moment. I might go back to the osteopath and get them to refer me.