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Chronic Pain | Last Active: Sep 29 10:06am | Replies (13)
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I know this is an older post, but if you’re still active on this site, I have a question. I need to have some minimally invasive surgery on my lumbar spine, but I have osteoporosis. I’m wondering if that was an issue for you when you had your surgeries. If so, or if not, how was it handled?
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Hello M Malone,
I had osteopenia and osteoporosis at the times of the surgeries. In 12/7/2016 for cervical laminectomy and fusion and for the scoliosis surgery in 2017 I was on Prolia. I was on Tymlos for the 2019 surgery and two months later developed hypercalcemia from the Tymlos. It did take a year for the surgery to heal after the replacement of larger screws after "lucencies" around the screws showed pseudoarthrosis (failure to heal with new bone). The osteoporosis didn't concern the surgeons or interfere with their plans to operate. I would guess that the need for correcting the problems with the spine outweighed the possibility of the osteoporosis interfering with the success of the surgery or that the degree of the osteoporosis wasn't prohibitive(?).