ProDisc/synthes Problems

[sahuaro]

Thanks so much for that link. I would guess that I was diagnosed with an essential tremor because he prescribed Propanolol.

[Dlg2gldn]

I would guess essential tremor as well. I was told if alcohol helps reduce the tremor that's probably it. My arm/hand shakes into pain and feel like there is no blood in my arm and my toes nerves hurt. Mine is very painful and I milk my arm to increase blood flow. This past winter my hand was as cold as it's ever been.My only relief comes from putting my arm behind my neck.. I'll let you know as I progress. The Parkinson's medication doesnt seem to help.

[sahuaro]

You can get a doppler study to test blood flow in your arm.
Your symptoms are very different from mine.
I was wondering though if one factor comes from release of metallic particles over time with the movement of the artificial disk, causing some kind of poisoning--I forgot what this is called but it happens with hip prostheses. My disk is metal-on-metal stainless steel

[Maria]

I guess sustained (long term) pain post implant might be a good indication if nothing else is showing up in terms of allergy testing re implants. I think other indications would be constant low grade fever, swelling at site, infection etc.

I would be interested to read what you both have to report re symptoms, findings, etc. I hope you will both find interested pro active doctors that are able to help.

Maria

[sahuaro]

My general allergies have been "off the chart" although there's no way of knowing if that is related to the ADR. I have wondered about that but even if I were tested for metal allergy, I'm not sure what could be done. I'm not ready to switch out the ADR for other hardware...