Wow this is crazy,I have severe hand pain before I need to have a BM!!!! I started having severe hand numbness and pain after cervical surgery on disk C-8 in 2011. After going around and over again to the doctor and hand specialist about this pain since surgery, they say it's because I have pressure on C-7??? What the heck happenedduring surgery the first time? Now they say I need to have an anterior cervical dissectomy fusion (acdf) that includes disk C-3 thru C-7. when i mentioned and questioned the reason for having pain before a BM, they go back to talking about surgery or totally ignore me. I have another friend that experiences severe pain in both her thumbs prior to urinating and she gets the same response as everyone else does. They actually make fun of it or feel you need to go talk with a head doctor instead of addressing the problem. It's not a laughing matter and the doctors are not as educated as we think....