diabetes Radiculopathy Progressed Into Neuropathy?

[rpowell01]

I've been researching this but can't find anything. I've been seeing a Pain Management and Neurosurgeon facility since Sept-October 2014. They decided to give me an EMG yesterday because of the pain and numbness/tingling I have. The pain started down my buttocks into the bottom of my feet and toes back in 2012. Currently I have loss of sensation that has wrapped around to the top of my feet and up into my shins. After the EMG the MD said he had to put everything together for his report and will call me back in for the FULL results. He did say his initial results are that if I only had L5-S1 Bilateral Radiculopathy in 2013 then its getting worse and has progressed into Neuropathy.

I've read in the past on the differences of these two things. Radiculopathy means one nerve is being pinched and Neuropathy means that more than one nerve is DAMAGED.

So my question is how can Radiculopathy progress into Neuropathy? BTW I am not diabetic and never have been. See the Regional Office approved me IU but denied my legs and I and I am thinking they were "hoping" I would get diabetes so they could say "We can't distinguish between the two"....Yes I read this exact phrase on my wife's Uncle Report from a claim.

See I started seeing this Neurologist/Neurosurgeon place because the VA has done NOTHING to properly treat my spine condition. The only thing they did was in 2013 was to send me out for ESI in Clearwater, FL. That was the WRONG treatment because I have DJD and little DDD even though I herniated a disc back in 2012. Now whenever I asked my VA PCP through secure message on declaring me P&T he said no he can't do that. Don' t worry Dr. Bash has already done this and Voc Rehab has declared me unemployable. Anyway my VA PCP had the nerve to tell me that one of James A. Haley PM specialists stated that I had "too many cooks" for my treatment. What such BS (Jesus please forgive me for saying that).

First I was having Thyroid issues that my VA PCP refused to treat me even after 2-3 blood results showed high Thyroid levels since 2013 so now I see my private PCP. Second the VA pain management wasn't doing anything, nothing to help me, nothing. I couldn't even see a surgeon after I requested it to PM. So whenever I finally was able to qualify for medicare I decided to go see a private PM facility. But the VA PM had the nerve to say "too many cooks"?

Guess what I am going to file a complaint with the IGs office because the Neurologist in Pain Management who improperly treated me wrote up a report stating he did a full exam on me. Guess what he never did that exam, I secured messaged PM at James A. Haley about this and secured messages shows he he called me back after I caught him in a lie after reading over the report. He calls me back in to finally do a proper exam. He lied and this is unethical. How many other veterans have been treated this way from James A. Haley?

See, I've complained and complained and complained about my low back and lower extremity issues and James A. Haley with no results. Luckily I secure message everything.

[spearhead91]

Dr Bash? Ok because I got two things going on back lumber DDD and PAD both legs. One fixed and one not.

[rpowell01]

Dr Craig Bash, look him up on the internet. He is a Neurological-Radiologist and he knows his stuff. He diagnosed stuff on me way, way before the VA did. It took the VA over a year to do an EMG on me. He is the man and he knows his stuff, trust me on this. His name appears a lot on the BVA Search.

[spearhead91]

Dr Craig Bash, look him up on the internet. He is a Neurological-Radiologist and he knows his stuff. He diagnosed stuff on me way, way before the VA did. It took the VA over a year to do an EMG on me. He is the man and he knows his stuff, trust me on this. His name appears a lot on the BVA Search.

Ok thanks much. I did a quick search and read some info.

[Andyman73]

I recently filed for sciatica(radiculapathy) in each lower extremity, to include feet. I am sending copies of my MRI report from this past March, and copies of any and all record entries where I mentioned any kind of pain, numbness, tingling, or burning/wet feelings. And a copy of my original VA rating/decision letter where the VA itself mentions sciatica type symptoms. So...."the waiting is the hardest part"

[rpowell01]

Andyman73 and others,

Here is the new impression from the new EMG I just had last Thursday. Keep in mind the VA conducted an EMG in Aug 2013 and those results showed L5-S1 Radiculopathy. This past weeks results are as follow:

Impression:

This is an abnormal electrodiagnostic study. There are electrical evidence to suggest a mild sensory and motor axonal and demyelinating polyneuropathy with bilateral fibular head entrapment and possible chronic right S1 radiuclopathy.

I am not MD but all I will say to everybody is if the VA is not giving you proper treatment such as ESIs and Facet Blocks get yourself to a Pain Management to get these done or you might end up with this crap. I sat right here on my computer on Secure Messaging and complained and complained about my radiculopathy and NOTHING was ever done, NOTHING. I am PISSED bigtime!!!!!

Dr. Bash was 110% whenever he said "If they (VA) doesn't do anything I will be paralyzed" and he said this in 2012 which was a year before ANYTHING was ever done which was nothing except given pain killers from Pain Management. I guess its time to file that complaint with a couple of Senators here in Florida about all of this crap.

Sorry I am not happy right now, I was hoping just to see the radiculopathy but now neuropathy which is most likely caused by the CHRONIC inflammation of the pinched nerve/damaged nerve.

[Andyman73]

That is just plain wrong! I feel your pain and anger, too.

I was at the Podiatrist on Monday, and he is scheduling me for an electrodiagnostic "fun time". I say that my L foot seems to get lazy or fatigued half-way through the day. And more so if I'm doing a lot of walking or standing. The top of my foot gets numb, like when your arm falls asleep, cuz you laid on it the wrong way, and then you touch it with your other hand and it feels like someone else's arm. Once the numbness shows up, that's usually when my foot doesn't come up all the way while walking. And sometimes it causes me to trip over my own toes. And worse yet, when that happens, trying to catch myself makes my knees and back and everything else hurt. I hope the electrodiagnostic test shows something, cuz I know I haven't been imagining this for years and years.