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Has anyone had laminectomy then needed spinal fusion?
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I’m not an advocate for spinal fusion. If you fuse L3 and L4 you are now placing added stress on the above and below the fused level. Eventually requiring a fusion of L2 & L3 or L4 & L5. This will continue to add more stress requiring more fusions.
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tonyst, so, with intractable pain, you would? Suffer?
None of us are fans of surgery. We're desperate to escape pain.
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The surgeon who did my laminectomy wanted to avoid fusion. Because of the severity of my stenosis the laminectomy required multilevel decompressions which created instability. No blame. I just wonder if fusion would have saved me this horrible level of pain and the need for a 2nd surgery. I had symptoms beginning before my final postop appointment.