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Does anyone have foraminal stenosis ?

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@annie1

I think he did acknowledge that it was there before, but he just did the decompression in the L3-4 area because he said it was the worst place. I just read about a surgery called foraminotomy. Have you heard about that ? I would do that perhaps but don't want fusion.

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bannisterkl | @bannisterkl | Oct 6 9:20am

I had spondylisthesis, foraminal narrowing and spinal stenosis. To treat it I had the laminectomy, foraminotomy, and he fused L2 - S1.

I'm glad I got a second opinion. 1st, I went to a neurosurgeon who was only going to fix L4 - L5. He totally missed the spondylisthesis at L3- even I could see it in the xray. (Hot shot neurosurgeon only got an MRI which didn't show it.

The 2nd and 3rd opinions agreed on the extent of degeneration and that I absolutely needed the L2 -S1 repairs along with fusion.

I went with the 2nd opinion , who was an orthopedic surgeon specializing in spines - and had the best reputation in town.
It's been 9 weeks now. I still have healing to do but I can stand, I can walk, and I can bend over... all things I couldn't do without extreme pain before the surgery.

I wish you well!

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