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What are people's experiences with spinal fusion surgery?
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My surgeon dumped me in January, as he declared that I was discharged. I tried at least 5 times to get a follow up appointment and received a firm no each time. I moved on and just saw a new surgeon yesterday and we reviewed my recent MRI and CT scans, but he didn’t have much to offer. Now I’m looking for a 3rd or even a 4th surgeon to see if there’s a path forward. I’ll ask about the EMG, as I don’t recall having this test done before. Thanks for the helpful reply.
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Most surgeons do not want to touch a spine if there are any issues with a surgery and post op healing. I think they are afraid of taking on legal risk. I have been holding off doing L3-S1 laminectomy and fusion because I am afraid of my pain being worse if something goes wrong. I have been getting spinal injections to help manage pain but they don’t work so well anymore. I will be trying PT again to try to strengthen muscle because I now have bilateral gluteal tendinopathy and bilateral hamstring partial tears. Not sure when and how this happened.
If you would like to copy/paste your recent MRIs (minus your personal information) for us to take a look to see what stands out, I am happy to review (I have a knack for reading MRIs in detail and have spotted things people may not be aware of such as fusions that did not heal but the surgeon to the person everything was “healed” and brushed off even though he was in worse condition than before the surgery. That may raise flags that you need to get an attorney involved, especially if you can’t get other surgeons to touch your case to “fix” anything.