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Thank you Bebold
Appreciate your insight and sorry to hear your miseries.
This is a neurosurgeon recommended by my Gastro Dr , who is the best Dr I have ever met, he cares and is smart.
I know you’re right no matter what surgery y you have in your back, you are risking things.
I know that I will have ongoing back issues because other parts of my back bother me. My expectation is that the numbness in my right leg and all the way down to my foot will go away, and the claudication in my butt will go away if I am fortunate enough to have that as a result I feel like i can continue my exercise routine and keep some level of fitness and health.
At this time I feel that I have no choice but to do something about the extreme stenosis in L34 and five. If I choose to do nothing all kinds of nasty things can develop like loss of bowel, control, and loss of right foot becoming drop foot right. If I continue as I have been, I will be unable to walk any distances to take care of the peripheral artery disease from my clogged arteries in my lower legs.
It’s critical that I keep moving for any quality of life in the future.
Thanks, Tony
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You are absolutely right. It does come down to quality which is directly related to function. A numb leg in your case, a drop foot in mine.
But what I'm curious about is your claudication thing. I fell flat in my butt 11 weeks ago. I have continued muscle pain/spasm that is niw interfering with my ability to even swing my leg forward to walk.
Can't get a dx because my back looks so bad on x-ray, its assumed to be my back.
I'm a long disabled nurse from it but I need to read mire about claudication. Thanks for that word.
Modtly I'm glad you havr a neuro or orthopod involved. That's just my thing. I think, really, strictly MY opinion of things I've seen pain drs do to even kids, I think they overstep. A 13 year old should not have a spinal cord stim put in as first treatment. An 8 year old woth a broken arm shouldn't be sent to a pain doctor. These are things I see happening on sites for "chronic pain." It just makes me mad. And with yhe.war against chronic pain patients on full force, everyone is sent to a pain dr and I see them doing their own experimental stuff.
Total admission I am completely prejudiced against pain doctors. I kniw.some people are helped but I don't think people should go PCP to pain doc amd I'm seeing it. They should never replace neurosurgeons and orthopods. Yup I'm a nurse. I worked ortho when I slipped disks lifting a pt. I had neuros and orthos do my surgery and still ended up in a mess but I don't blame the doctors. Fair or not I.might have not been so forgiving of a pain dr doing a fusion that medicare won't even pay for. Full transparency.