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Spinal Surgery: What should I expect?
Spine Health | Last Active: Jan 20, 2023 | Replies (40)Comment receiving replies
Thank you Jo54, really appreciate your comments. Actually I'm in my early 60s and don't want to wait till I'm 80. My mother had serious back problems, and her early to mid 80s she started to fall from the pain, the Drs insisted that she do the back surgery that she didn't want to do for 20 years, and she passed away two months later. I'm very glad you're OK, but I don't want to wait that long to take care of this problem. I know that it gets harder and harder to recover from as we age. I really do not want my neck fused because I still am active and drive and want to exercise etc. My injuries I have were caused because of a horseback riding accident, and then a skiing accident. I have always been a very active person and I'd like to go back to being that way. Maybe not quite as active as I was when I did that which wasn't very long ago. Cautiously active, Jennifer
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To Oldkarl, How do you get it privately? From Marie
@oldkarl I am @marield65 and I am interested in your story about the nurse giving you a shot of pain medication after surgery. I too need more back surgery and can’t take pain medication as the last time I had surgery I was put in a Delirium state from having certain pain medication and not being alert I kept telling them I was in pain and they gave me more pain medication on top of the previous medication and I was in a Delirium state for 4 days before a Geriatric Doctor discovered the state I was in and stopped the pain medication and it took another few days before I became lucid. I remember nothing about being in the hospital or the tests they took during my stay.
My husband kept them from putting me in restraints as I kept getting dressed and trying to leave the hospital I fell and just had knee surgery, after X-raying my knee they had me on a 24 hour every day watch until they sent me to a rehab center.
What would you do if you need more surgery like I need 2 more surgeries and I am scared. I am 72 and the older you get you process medication slower?
Thank you
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I have had two spine surgeries, neither of which was worth the effort. I had intense pain at about the #4 level, and just into the tail bone. I have a lot of Ankylosing Spondilitis, Stenosis, Amyloidos nodules, and several crushed disks. What should have been the top of the tail bone broke off in a fall at age 8. Anyway, the #4 spot and others were cleaned out a few years ago. However, in recovery, the nurse did not follow the doctor orders. I heard the surgeon not to give me any opiates or other pain meds. However, when I had pain, she gave me a shot of something (I suspect morphine). This was in Oregon. I woke up about 12 hours later just knowing I was in jail in Butte, Montana serving a life sentence for vagrancy. Found out later I had broken the restraints, as I had also done in another hospital in Phoenix, years earlier. I would tell you more about my AMY, but you would have to request it privately. Hang in there. It can get better, but it is not all up to the Docs. Most is up to you.