Hello my name is Sarah I have been severing from degenerative disc disease since I was at least 24. I say at least because I didn't go to the doctor for it until I was married with insurance but I remember my 23rd birthday I begged my entire family just I don't care go in on it whatever you have to do but I need a new mattress this mattress is killing my back. Well it turned out it was not so much the mattress but the degenerative disc in my lumbar spine that had began. My orthopedic before the MRI after the X-ray treated me like nothing but a drug seeker and he told me that there was nothing that fit the symptoms that I said that I had. Now having taken some medical classes I know the way that statement should have been said and the words the pain that you SAY that you have should have never been spoken. WHY? BECAUSE THE MEDICAL DEFINITION OF PAIN IS THAT IT IS WHATEVER THE PATIENT SAYS THAT IT IS. Now let's not forget that my doctor had never saw a 24-year-old around a hundred pounds with the same disease that I had and he said as close as he could say to sorry and not damaged his ego but he said it has to be hereditary and I said well it is my grandmother has it and my aunt has it. Needless to say he sent me to some excellence physical therapy, aquatic therapy was the best thing I've ever done in my life but you know insurance they only want to pay for so much physical therapy. Okay so let's fast forward 15 years. My back and my neck had been getting a little worse than a little worse a bone spur here nodule here and and 19 I couldn't bear it anymore and I went to the med center in Florida they automatically did an MRI where they found the osteophytes or bone spurs they found the nodules like the s'mores nodules but when you Google the s'mores nodule it says the treatment is surgery. Upon seeking to their day shift night shift was awesome by the way, but day shift told me at least there was nothing that required surgery. And I'm not a big one for surgery I was told when I was 24 that I would require surgery by the time I was 30. I said no I think I'll just work until I can't and the boys and girls I hate to admit it but I think I'm there. I have peripheral neuropathy and my feet and my hands and arms feet came first and kept me up at night to the point I would be soaking my feet in the bathtub for any relief. Using medication for restless leg I got my neuropathy in my feet under control and then my neck started hurting like unreal pain. So we're back to x-ray can't see anything on the X-ray MRI for my c4 to my c7 I have a bulging disc I have an osteo fight or bouncer on the route nerve and this is caused both of my hands to have the burning pins and needles and this I'm in the second one occurrence I where I lose most of the control of my right hand it becomes very weak and just not reliable it's not very painful it's just frustrating. I feel like I know what a stroke victim feels like when they have some kind of dysphagia and they know what they want to do or say but when they try to it comes out garbled well that's basically how the use of my right hand does. Also the burning pins and needles now run halfway up my arms and they're not just in my hands they come and go but it's constant when my right hand weakens. So I'm not exactly sure what I'm asking for right now experience advice, some luck and testing as I have an EMG coming up next it's been delayed because my insurance lapsed for no reason in the middle of the year but I've got it back and we're going to keep going from here. I bought a purple mattress and it was like sleeping on a cloud but it's getting more and more painful to sleep on that mattress. So I just want a diagnosis and treatment.