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Late September 2020 I went in for a routine after surgery check-up with my neurosurgeon and had an MRI done and an x-ray and that's when he found a syrinx at the t7 level and that was blown up a hundred and forty-six times just to see it now 7 months later my neurologist made me have a CT scan and an MRI of my Lumbar and found that my syrinx has grown all the way to the T1 down to the T12 and found also a annular tear and Lumbar 1 and 2 Disc pain from the syrinx is excruciating wouldn't wish it on anybody in the world pain radiates from my back all the way around my shoulder to my chest and and up and down my whole spine also have migraines and ringing of the ears and pressure in eyeball excruciating pain in my back like somebody's taking a ice pick and jabbing it all the way through my spine and coming out my chest going to be getting together with my neurosurgeon and talking over exactly how we're going to proceed with the operation to get rid of the syrinx in my back don't know what they're going to do yet I have a fantastic doctor he worked on my neck my neck is fantastic I think everything is going to go well trying to keep my spirits up I will add to my story after surgery

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