One morning I woke up with severe pain my right shoulder.  I could not
lift my right hand or move backward without feeling severe pain my
right shoulder.  I went to emergency and was prescribed Naproxene
(sp.?) an anti-inflammatory drug.  They took an x-ray of my right
shoulder. Nothing wrong was seen on bones.  Doctor asked me if i
remember doing anything unusual with my right hand.  I remembered
weeding out my lawn a month ago and felt burning sensation in my right
shoulder when one of the weeds happened to be deep rooted and had pull
real hard!  I was recommended to see my Orthopedic.

I got an appointment with orthopedic two weeks later.  I was taking
Naproxene during that time.  Pain subsided.  But a week later suddenly
I felt tingling sensation in my right palm.  The same night tingling
spread over my right chest, right leg and right feet!  I was very
scared!

I was planning to talk to Orthopedic about my pain in my right
shoulder, but now I had to tell him tingling/numbness in right side of
my body too!  Pain my right shoulder was almost gone by the time I met
my Orthopedic.

My Orthopedic said tingling on particular side of the body is an
indication that something wrong with nerves coming from my brain.
Asked me if I was ever in an accident.  I was in an accident 15 years
ago.  He took X-ray of my neck.  Saw nothing wrong.  He recommended
MRI.

MRI report reads as follows:

"MRI examination of the cervical spine performed using sagittal T1,
sagittal T2 and axial T2 weighted sequences.

Findings:  Craniocervical junction is unremarkable.  Cervical
vertebral bodies are of normal size and stature with maintenance of
intervertebral disc space hight, apart from C5-C6 and C6-C7 where
there reversal of normal cervical curvature.  Anterior and posterior
marginal ostephytic spur-disc complexes identified at those levels.
Most severe, at the C5-C6 level, is broad-based disc-spur complex with
a more focal LEFT paracentral protrusion of disc material extending
approximately 5-mm, severe in nature, with cord concavity and mass
affect upon the cord at this level.

At C6-C7, disc-spur complex results in broad-based appearance with
encroachment upon the LEFT neural foramina at C6-C7.  The most
significant findings include that of the protrusion of disc material
at the C5-C6 level.

IMPRESSION:
1.  REVERAL OF NORMAL CERVICAL CURVATURE EPICENTER OF WHICH IS c5-c6
AND c6-c7

2.  At C5-C6, apart from the posterior marginal ostephytic spur-disc
complex, broad based, there is more focal, significant LEFT
paracentral protrusion of disc material, approximately 5-mm, with
significant mass effect upon the cervical cord and concavity of the
cord at that level.  Correlation with symtomatology recommended.

3.  Disc-spur complex C6-C7, are broad-based, resulting in mild LEFT
neural formina encroachment at C6-C7."

My Orthopedic referred me to a Neurosurgeon with an advice - Surgery
should be Your Last Option!

A week later, I saw my Neurosurgeon. He read the MRI report, glanced
the MRI film and recommended surgery of my neck.  He said I have
pinched nerve causing tingling/numbness on my right side of the body!
When I saw Neurosurgeon, tingling/number was almost gone!  I had
slight tingling on my right feet and I still have.  Most of the time I
feel perfectly Ok. Slight tingling with sometimes warm feeling shows
up once in a while!  I mentioned that to my Neurosurgeon.  He insisted
surgey and gave a week to think about it.

Needless to say I was too scared to go for surgery.  I saw a
Chiropractor.  Of course he is no orthopedic or Neurosurgeon, but by
reading the MRI report he thought left side of my body should have any
problem, if any, not right side!  According to him, my symptom and MRI
report does not match.  He thinks tingling/numbness most likely is
caused by my original problem - pain in my upper right shoulder.  I
may have broken a ligament while pulling out weed and nerves around it
may have affected by that!  He thought it could heal itself.  Of
course, he did say the MRI report indicates I will have some problem
in future in left side of my body!  He did not think surgery was
necessary to cure tingling in right side of the body!

Was Chiropractor correct in his statement?

Why my Orthopedic or Neurosurgeon did not pay much attention when I
said all this started with pain in my right shoulder while weeding out
my lawn!  Tingling showed up 2 weeks after the pain in my shoulder!

I am thinking to get second opinion from another neurosurgeon.  But I
thought of putting my problem here to get comments.

I am 49. Interesting my elder sister of 52 had the same problem and
was cured without surgery!  My mother, 80, had the same problem and
she is fine with no surgery!

I apologize for the long post.  But I had to detail everything!  

Any comment will be appreciated.  Thanks for reading!