Any long term experience with Dr Bydon spinal stenosis surgery?

I would very highly recommend Dr Mohammed Bydon and his surgical team. On 11/1/2024 I had an alif and on 11/5/2024 I had a robotic plif. I realize this is not considered a long term success. However, after 30+ years of living with a multitude of spinal issues, which included severe spinal stenosis, and a great deal of pain, I literally am pain free now. I was very apprehensive about having 2 spinal surgeries. Dr Bydon is a highly skilled neurosurgeon. Yet, he is very personable and assured me that he did these surgeries all the time. He did explain to me, in detail, that if I put off having these surgeries, my outcome would not be as good. There would also be a possibility of being in a wheelchair later in life if I chose to not have surgery at all. I am extremely happy with Dr Bydon. He has given me a life of pain free living.

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I would very highly recommend Dr Mohammed Bydon and his surgical team. On 11/1/2024 I had an alif and on 11/5/2024 I had a robotic plif. I realize this is not considered a long term success. However, after 30+ years of living with a multitude of spinal issues, which included severe spinal stenosis, and a great deal of pain, I literally am pain free now. I was very apprehensive about having 2 spinal surgeries. Dr Bydon is a highly skilled neurosurgeon. Yet, he is very personable and assured me that he did these surgeries all the time. He did explain to me, in detail, that if I put off having these surgeries, my outcome would not be as good. There would also be a possibility of being in a wheelchair later in life if I chose to not have surgery at all. I am extremely happy with Dr Bydon. He has given me a life of pain free living.

Where is he ?

I would very highly recommend Dr Mohammed Bydon and his surgical team. On 11/1/2024 I had an alif and on 11/5/2024 I had a robotic plif. I realize this is not considered a long term success. However, after 30+ years of living with a multitude of spinal issues, which included severe spinal stenosis, and a great deal of pain, I literally am pain free now. I was very apprehensive about having 2 spinal surgeries. Dr Bydon is a highly skilled neurosurgeon. Yet, he is very personable and assured me that he did these surgeries all the time. He did explain to me, in detail, that if I put off having these surgeries, my outcome would not be as good. There would also be a possibility of being in a wheelchair later in life if I chose to not have surgery at all. I am extremely happy with Dr Bydon. He has given me a life of pain free living.

@nana1606 I'm glad your surgery was a great success. I agree that it is better to address a problem early rather than wait for permanent damage to occur. Dr. Bydon is a good surgeon. He was one I thought about when I came to Mayo. I chose a different surgeon because of medical literature that he co-authored. I have read about Dr. Bydon's work with regenerative research for spinal cord trauma. Thirty years is a long time to live with spine issues. My spine surgery was a cervical fusion. If you don't mind my curiosity, did you have an instrumented multi-level fusion?

Well i dont know first hand yet until tomorrow. Im in mayo rochester going to have a MIS-TLIF tomorrow , scared to death actually have not read anything good hardly at all for anyones fusion surgery. I too read good things about him. I do know hes donevabout 4000 of these robotic surgeries but to be honest id rather have another approach like llif thru side etc or xlif im at l4 l5 so dont know. It was too stressful researching any other doctors to find another approach or good surgeon. Good luck to you, and me. 930 am. Pray for me please. 69 woman osteopenia and scared of having bad outcome with more problems than now or different ones.