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Posterior vs Anterior offered- complications with both. Thoughts?
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Hi Jennifer- Wow. Thanks for the updates. The mention of Mohammed Bydon is terrific. I do thorough bio searching, as well-(learned from an earlier trade) I was advised to use mupirocin and Hibiclens a week prior-so yes. Great idea to use it for any time sinusitis. The concern about infection is colonized MRSA- and pockets left post surgery from reattaching muscles. Love the idea of asking about no frontal spine plate. I asked my gastro who performs the EGD/Dilation and he had no input. Not happy about that. I'm not a candidate for artificial disks-vertebrae too far gone. Fogelson's name familiar--I have the one surgeon who proposes Posterior only C5-6- (with decompression, etc mentioned prior) but that leaves me to deal with ongoing decompression in C4 -then keeping in mind Adjacent Segment Disease. (ASD) I see so many people just not happy with Posterior- so many complications- I hear you on Fear- and strongly practice The Laws of Attraction (Positive) -still......giving me pause.
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@chrisanon In my decision on no spine hardware, that allows my bone to have the same flexibility as before my surgery. If there was hardware attached, it would be more rigid than the bone by itself. Not that small spine vertebrae are doing a lot of flexing, but that thought in addition to working on all the muscle spasms that act on my neck will reduce stresses on it. My PT does myofascial release and that also helps to break up surgical scar tissue. The incision gets tight as it heals, and then over time it periodically tightens, so it's an ongoing practice for me to release the built up tension. This year will be 9 years post fusion and so far so good. I still could have adjacent segment issues in the future, but I'm fighting that with what I do. I also have thoracic outlet syndrome that tightens my neck and I have to keep working to loosen that.
Also core strength helps support my spine from the bottom up and I own a horse which does wonders for that just riding at a walk. I could have had an artificial disc, but I wasn't a great candidate for it because of 2mm of movement. As it turned out, my body does not like foreign materials at all. I did have an ankle fracture in 2020 and owned some titanium plates and screws for awhile, but I had that removed. I was getting chronic hives, pain, and pigmentation of the skin. There is a lab in Chicago called Orthopedic Analysis that tests for immune responses to implants. That 's not foolproof because you can develop it later and I had tested negative on that, but 6 months after the ankle fracture, I started having issues.
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