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Spine Health | Last Active: 4 days ago | Replies (2)Comment receiving replies
CT will better evaluated the hardware. Metal causes distortion of the images with MRI. I know you were paraphrasing but there is a great difference between "we can't see anything because of the hardware" and we didn't see anything actionable. Do you know if the hardware is titanium or metal?
You would be really weird if you didn't want affirmation, identification and rectification of your situation.
And, you have to keep looking until you find these answers.
I would suspect that some part of your hardware has migrated.
But I've no experience as a physician or patient in this arena.
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THANK YOU for reply!
It is titanium, and I will be getting a cervical and lumbar CT along with MRIs tomorrow with the new provider with the neuro follow up on 3/4.
My paraphrasing was definitely terse, probably because of my frustration with my original provider. The fact that they didn’t want to entertain a different imaging process however, spoke volumes to me.
Again, thank you for a few words of confidence that the CT will hopefully yield some better results.
I always worry that the longer the process continues, the risk gets higher of permanent nerve damage.