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Sacroiliac joint pain and my introduction
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@sunshine22220 I'm sorry to hear about your situation. That kind of pain robs you physically and emotionally! Dr. Gage, a physiatrist in Brunswick, GA, did it. He put two screws between my hip and sacrum to hold open my SI joint. So far so good! Still have a bit of scar tissue pain but only in weird positions physical activity puts me in. Picture a bad golf swing 🙂 I still wear an SI belt for golf, as a prophylactic measure. Otherwise, I'm good to go. I also have an implanted spinal cord stimulator for L3-L4 pain.
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I've had L4-5 laminectomy/Discectomy Jan 2019. Fusion L4-5 July 2019. Then both si joints fused 6/9/21. Find out 10/2023 that the original surgeon left 2 screws in my nerve canal in my spine. Didn't need the si joints done. So he took the fused cage out of l4-5 and on post op decided he won't see me at all! Found the Mayo Clinic has excellent dr to get these ifuse rods out( I am allergic to titanium) I found out last summer. I am literally burning! The surgeon who put these in me won't take them out even though he said if it didn't work out he can take them out, he said he just doesn't like to. Just so hard for me to trust any doctors so I pray drs at Mayo can help. After this I have no one to help. I won't do a spinal cord stimulator because I am immuno-compromised so any infection I can die. It's a nightmare out there. Hard to find someone to trust.