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Originally posted by mike mckinley
hi
you are probably wondering how i got onto this.....a friend of mine was getting married...so at his stag party he passed out, and one of the boys pulls out this tube of gumb cream and proceeds to wipe it all over his ankles and feet...five minutes later he screams at the passed out groom, who promptly jumps to his feet....and because they were numb, falls down...well, i guess you had to be there 
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Hi Mike, and, Oh oh, that was nasty
As far as I'm concerned, anything that can help numb ongoing pain is worth checking out
... but when numbness is part of the problem? I figure the numbness and loss of sensory stuff is due to pressure on the nerves at the cervical discs, and it's the pressure I want to relieve ... maybe some exercises or something (along with the anti-inflammatories to alleviate inflammation, of course)?
I'm assuming that physio, once I'm started, will give me exercises etc to help, but until I see them, I haven't a clue what exercises may help. I was hoping others in here who have been through this could advise on what they've done to help. I know cervical disc degeneration and herniations are pretty common. Bummer to learn what these things actually FEEL like and the mischief they can do in other distant parts of the body ... if you have friends who were toilert trained as kids but now need DEPENDS as grown-ups, ya might want to check out the cervical disc condition?
Lordy, lordy, never get old in body, I swear
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Karmen