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Timeline, expectations on healing, quality of life after long fusion?
Spine Health | Last Active: Jun 26 7:30am | Replies (36)Comment receiving replies
Hi Jack,
Sorry I saw the PS first (my e-mail updated and now I can’t find half of what is sent).
Thank God you have faith. It certainly sounds like your surgeon has faith in how much he can make and not in what he should have done properly. It is unfathomable that you have to live in more pain and being certainly more disabled than prior to surgery. Did the surgeon skip classes the day they explained surgery was to correct not destroy?
Suppose every doctor wants you to recover from this surgery before they will assess you.
Is there much time left before a “typical patient” would be able to get up, move around, see a doctor/surgeon? Hope you have a good GP who can coordinate your recovery.
Please take care Jack. You have given me so much to think about. Really, really appreciate your frankness. It is refreshing to get honest information.
Cheers,
Don
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I odn't know if this will be helpful or not. I am in a position of having no more non-surigical options. I have already done MILD with some relief. My pain is all Sciatica. Right now it is accepting the pain levels and loss of quality of life or do the fusion. Mine would only be 3 levels but thats plenty.
I am not going to do surgery until I have to and both Dr.'s I have seen agree,
I need to take off weight also. Both are telling me realistically I'm looking at 50% pain relief and probably pain in my back that I don't have now.
I do appreciate the fact that both of the don't blow smoke up my a**
My wife is fused from T9-Pelvis. It was done over 6 surgeries and probably 10 years but had a revision done the 2nd to the last surgery that encompassed the whole thing. It was a combination of the discs failing above the fusion, a quack of a dr. and a fall.
She is walking but is on long term opiods which is another slow form of death.
She gets around with a walker or using shopping cart and can do about 3/4 of a mile with it.