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@hondaman

i just has a Laminectomy l5 to l2 no fusion what made it worse i fell 3 days before surgery and bruised om my left side so pain from laminectomy and bruise i noticed my open Incision was 4.5 inches as i am in shock as i thought it be shorter. Now will i have back instability due to loss of lamnia. i wish i did Minimally invasive laminectomy . my cervical laminectomy was shorter

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paddymccormick | @paddymccormick | 4 days ago

I did not have minimally invasive surgery either. I don’t think I encountered the instability as you had, at least in the way I’m thinking you meant. Did you mean something like physical stability for things like waking?

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