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Lower back spinal fusion recovery: How bad is it?
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Have you considered checking reviews on either Healthgrades or Medifind?
While they are not the best recommendations you can get, they could give
you a starting point. Medifind is pretty reliable because the ratings come
from medical people and not patients. Medifind will also give you
information about what procedures the doctors do the most often. I know
how hard it is to know if you have made the best pick. I have a lot of
health problems and have a number of other doctors whose opinions I trust.
I ultimately went with the surgeon recommended by my pain management doctor
but I also checked out Dr Ahlgren's reputation with many other doctors I
see. Did a doctor you trust recommend any spine surgeons to you? I think
that is where you might start. I hope you can find someone you can trust.
Having faith in the person operating on you is an important part of the
journey.
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Thank you I'll check into that medfind. Unfortunately I don't really have any doctor who has any strong recommendation. I'm trying to narrow my search down. The bad news is that I had an EMG on Monday that showed more nerve damage lower down your s1 and I'm not sure if surgery will be able to help with that. Hopefully the surgeon who ordered the EMG will be able to tell me honestly if surgery will help. I guess you could help with stopping progression of nerve damage. It's a very complicated situation because I've had the same symptoms for 8 years already so I might have had nerve damage for that long although it is getting worse it appears. But I am talking to surgeon tomorrow and then another one next week and I'll see what the consensus is. In the meantime I'm going to look up medfind which I never heard of. That's a good tip to follow up on. Where do you live by the way? And who was your surgeon if it's close to New York maybe I'll check them out or even if it's not that close if they did a good job. What was your issue and what procedure did you have done? And what we are symptoms? Thanks again
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