Update

Sorry, quadrollin, I don't have anything helpful to offer in terms of advice, but I'm sorry to hear about your latest challenges and hope you're better. Have things improved since your last post?

quadrollin,real sorry to hear that you have been having a rough time lately, isn't it always the case that everything comes all at once! It may be worth having a look at how your posture is in your chair now, our bodies change over time and so does our posture.

If anything neurological is ruled out it may be worth having a check over of how your chair is fitting you and if you need any physio for your neck too. It sounds like you are reliant on neck muscles for many activities and may cause strain. If you lack sensation there, it could be your brains way of telling you that there is a need to pay attention to something that may be going on there.

I guess all roads lead to neuropathic pain one way or another.

How did the appointment go as we are now a week on from your original post?

Quadrolin, I re-read your first post just now, and as I did so, something that happened to me years ago (before my sci) flashed into my mind. I'd had terrible neck pain. It was so bad that I got my primary care doctor to give me a referral to a neurologist. He was clueless. I suffered several more years before I read a good book and discovered that gallstones could give that excruciating pain in the neck,...yes, a terrible spasm in the neck. I also learned that gallstones can be 'radio lucent', that is, they may not be calcified and hence won't show up on x-rays. I know that you are a quad, and that this pain is 'right about the level of' your injury. But I just wanted to alert you to this possibility of gallstones, because they could cause that stabbing pain at exactly that location, yet be completely unrelated to your neck injury.

Please private message me if you want me to tell you how I got rid of my neck pain which was caused by gallstones.