Let me see. I went to two rheumatologists then a shoulder doctor. They told me
all kinds of sh*it, and didn't diagnose my problem correctly. Then I went to a
neck/spine doctor who told me I have extra cervical ribs. How did the previous
doctors miss those, I told them it runs in my family! Then I went to a vascular
surgion about the cervical ribs, and he was obnoxious. Then I went to a second
vascular surgion and thank god he took the cervical rib out. It was driving me
insane, now I'm a lot better. He did the smallest opperation possiable, only
removing the lower part of the cervical rib and the muscle around it............
See my point? There's lots of good doctors out there and a bunch who suck.

Good luck. I'd go see a general orthopedist before I saw a surgion




--- In thoracicoutletsyndrome@yahoogroups.com, "kd_djonma" <kd_djonma@y...>
wrote:
>
> I saw a rheumatologist last week.
> He told me I have Fibromyalgia on top of the TOS and hypermobile
> shoulders.
>
> He's going to find out who would be best to look at me in regards to
> the possibility of doing surgery to fix my TOS and surgery to
> stabilise my shoulders!
>
> I'm a little nervous about the thought of surgery, but if they fix my
> TOS and shoulders, it's got to be good!
>
> Has anyone here had surgery to fix the TOS, and if so, how well did it
> work?
>
> Regards,
>
> Nicola