Question
I have 2 buldging cervical discs & 4 buldging thorasic discs.I have pain everyday with them,my spine dr. prescribed a muscle relaxer to take everyday it doesn't really help. My question is here the last several weeks I have had tingling in my legs and feet, and my arms will go numb or just go to jumping on their on. I was wondering if this could be from the buldging discs or something else?

Answer
Hello,

Sorry to hear about your pain, and that the muscle relaxants don't seem to be helping much.

I would think you could a great deal to help yourself if you understood that most of your issues seem to be coming from inappropriately tight muscle tissue around your spine, and along the nerve pathway to where you are feeling the numbness.

If you don't mind a minor discussion of anatomy I think it may help empower you to be able to fix yourself.  If you think about, bones are chunks of calcium, they only go where muscles pull or hold them.  Bones don't do anything on there own.  And muscles only do what nerves direct them to do, since it's your cerebellum at the top of your brain stem that tells every single muscle in your body how tight to be.  That's why when you go for surgery and they put you under full body anesthesia (where your cerebellum gets shut down) every single muscle in your entire body goes completely loose.  And when the anesthesia wears off, every single muscle in your body goes back to the tension setting it had before they knocked you out.

Why am I telling you all of this?  Well, because when you understand the above information you can begin to grasp that your "bulging discs" are just "bulging" on there own.  They are bulging because the tension settings in your muscles that attach to those vertebrae have put your vertebrae in positions and under pressure in a way that over time has caused those discs to bulge.

When the vertebrae and discs are being pulled and torqued inappropriately by tight muscle tissue you will often experience pain.
Think of all the muscles that attach to your spine like the rigging on a big old sailboat.  Imagine some of the rigging being inappropriately tight.  That could cause the masts and the pulleys to be in a less than optimal position, which could cause them to wear out more quickly than it that were not the case.

Sooooo, whether it's your neck, upper back, lower back, or tingling in your hands and feet;  You most likely need to release the inappropriately tight tissue that is causing your discs to get compressed, your vertebrae to less than optimally positioned,  and the nerves to get torqued or yanked on as they do their best to keep your body functioning.

What you need to do is RELEASE the inappropriately tight tissue that is causing, most likely, all of the problems you describe.  I show you how to do that for free at my website:
http://www.do-it-yourself-joint-pain-relief.com/
You just watch the videos and follow along.  It's all totally free.

That's a short explanation that I hope is somewhat clear.  I explain more of this on the homepage of my website.  But let me just encourage you to check out the other pages on
neck pain, upper back pain, foot pain, etc.  If you go to the Site Map on my website
http://www.do-it-yourself-joint-pain-relief.com/joint-pain-relief-site-map.html
you'll see headings for all your areas of pain with additional pages that may help you.

I do think you could do a lot to help yourself once someone shows you how. And it's all free.

I do hope this helps,

Best,
Gary