I hurt my back and neck in a 1994 work injury. I have several herniated disc in both my lower and upper back and three in my neck. I have one disc which has now ruptured. I was told it is responsible for permanent nerve damage due to the disc fluid from the ruptured disc. I can not turn my head in either direction more then a slight turn in either direction. The right side rotation is worse. I have suffered chronic pain so long I can’t remember when it became chronic. I have had nerve testing and it showed I have permanent nerve damage in both legs feet, ulnar nerve in both arms. My left hand is mostly numb all the time now. My knees feel numb. Best way to describe it is they feel like my hands do now. I have been diagnosed with over 30 autoimmune disorders. My vision is blurred and now I’m seeing black squiggly lines and sharp white light sparks even when it’s dark. I can’t sleep more then about four hours at a time. I have been treated for major depression taking meds for a straight 15 years or longer with little resolve. I have sever anxiety. In the last 10 years I suffer severe memory loss. I lost a four year period of time with no explanation. Today I can’t find my way out of a paper bag. I can’t concentrate. I can’t focus. I use to be a very positive minded outgoing independent person and proud of it. Today I don’t trust my own sense of judgment. I struggle to remember what I read minute to minute sometimes having to read a sentence Over and over then giving up. Example I take Coumadin daily and it’s important I don’t miss a dose. I have a severe blood clot disorder. Yet  I can sit here with the Bottle in my hand and go to take the pill and not be able to remember if I already took the Med or not. Of course I can’t risk taking a double dose. So I don’t take it. Then I have to deal with the numbers dropping. This severe minute to minute memory loss is terrifying. I have had encephalitis twice without any infection found in my blood. I have dealt with inflammation in many organs, nephritis, pancreatitis, cardio apathy, pleurisy on a regular basis. I have been waiting for a hip replacement surgery but can’t find a hip surgeon willing to do a surgery. The cartilage is gone and I have bone on bone happening there. My bone density test shows I have great bone density like a 17 year old my Rheumatologist says. So far there is no explanation for why it happened. My a Achilles’ tendon is shredded and in four years still can’t heal. The other foot has tears in the Achilles’ tendon. Today there is so much pain in my feet that I can’t bare to stand or walk my feet feel like someone has beat them 
With a pipe.  I have been diagnosed with CHF I have hypertension that has worsened recently. I have venous insufficiency. My legs are now discolored after a year of severe edema caused by a side effect of a medicine. Which has been discontinued ams the edema is now gone. But the discoloration the blue tint to my feet and lower legs have not gone away. I was told I must do surgeries on both ulnar nerves. My primary suggested I wait until I loose complete movement control of my hands before doing a surgery. He says often that surgery does not go well and people often end up with less movement. I have dizziness often. Nausea and gut pain every time I eat.  I have colitis derviticulitis and I have been hospitalized three times for this. I have so many gallstones they can’t count them.  I have severe ringing in my ears. I feel like the nerve response needed for a bowl movement no longer happen. I have bloating all the time when I eat. I get severe Charlie horse like spasms in my feet and legs that last for up to about 4-5 minutes at a time causing horrible pain. The spasms happen on a regular basis. When I lie down at night my feet hurt so bad I can’t deal with it. I think I can say the pain in my feet is worse then any pain I have ever had to deal with. Lately that same spasm I’m feeling further up my leg in my thigh. I get migraines often. 
  After learning briefly about conditions that can happen with cervical instability I am hoping to find answers to WHY ? What caused all of these things?  They just keep treating symptoms. No one explores the why all these disorders . I am 54 years old and I’ve lived the last 30 years in pain. As of the last five years the nerve pain exceeds the pain I dealt with in the past. I’ve been told the depression and debilitating  anxiety is all caused by chronic pain. I feel like I’ve been living in the body of a 90 year old the last decade. 
  I am hoping you can help me regain my life through your work.