About 6 mths ago had small 1" soft lump under skin below left collar bone a few inches from base of neck. This small lump area still exists but have developed pains from base of neck, across my left collar bone/upper back area to the shoulder/arm joint & down towards elbow. Some left shoulder to wrist tingling occurs daily but radomly. Pain hurts some but is not unbearable and can be agrrevated by head turning & lifting up of arm . The whole pain areas are minimal to non-existant initially after good nites sleep, but shortly comes back & gets worse as day goes on.
Last weeks series of cevical Xrays per family Doc indicates neck trouble, wear/tear of cervical area...he also mentioned old age (early 60s) , degeneration & arthritis. My 1st web search found CERVICAL SPONDYLIOSIS which seems to fit lot of my issues, but Doc says NO. Start using soft collar, (used 1 day seems to provide some relief) & MRI maybe in few weeks. Have not taken any medicine or pills since began some months ago.
Your OPINIONs, treatments, reversible/correctable ? long term prognosis ? etc.
Thanks