I am a 52 year old male, and have had torticollis for about 11 years. Nothing has worked for me including botox injections, chiropractic, massage therapy, accupuncture, and all the typical drugs and even herbals. I still go to work everyday, but it is getting harder and harder to deal with. Recently I read about Microvascular decompression surgery, and it has really gave me hope. It seems to have a high cure rate, and I am going to ask my neurologist to have an MRI. I wonder why he has never told me of this? It seems to be that an artery is pushing tight up against the spinal accessory nerve, so they move it away and put a little cushion between them. This sounds promising to me, and seems to make sense. I wonder if the doctors have been looking at things from a "symptom" point of view all these years? What I mean is that, they say there is a chemical problem steming from the basil ganglia region of the brain. But maybe the chemical is being produced because of the nerve being irritated, and the brain is just doing it's normal thing not knowing the difference. It's kinda like a thyroid problem. Anyone out there had this opperation, or know of any other facts about this?
Thank you in advance for any help.

I am a 27 year old female and have been dignosed with wry neck today, my doctor isn't very interested in his patients and just shooed me out of his office with no pain killers or any information on this diagnosis. So i wanted to know is this a life long thing or can it be treated so it goes away???? does it gradualy get worse????

can I get an ICD-9 code for this disease and a cpt code as well

I am 16 and have had wry neck for my entire life; I believe it is due to birth trauma, but the cause is no longer important to me. My head is noticeably tilted to one side and the muscle on the side of my neck is constantly taut. My face has also developed asymmetrically, and as a 16 year old, all of these symptoms bother me; I have only just started searching for ways to fix this, as I became more self conscious, and have received very vague answers, with most people only having experience with treating wry neck in young children, saying things like "see a chiropractor and hope for the best" or that surgery may most likely be required. I was wondering if anybody could tell me if this sort of surgery would be covered by health insurance, and also if surgery to fix the asymmetry of my face could be covered, as it's gotten to the point where I look in the mirror and my facial features look as if they have slid diagonally to accommodate my tilted head.