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@candy101 I understand being careful about Covid, but hospitals have been Covid testing patients before allowing surgical procedures. I had surgery for a broken ankle at Mayo at the beginning of the Pandemic, and again last fall, I had surgery to remove the surgical hardware. Both times, I had to pass a Covid test before surgery. Is the doctor saying this now that you can't have a procedure because of Covid? Perhaps an opinion at another place would help? Other hospitals are doing procedures with Covid protocols in place.
My elderly mom also had a compression spinal fracture because of osteoporosis. She wasn't a candidate for bone cement because of severe osteoporosis, and she had a brace while it healed, and it did heal.
This is some information from Mayo about vertebroplasty that uses bone cement to put a spine fracture back together.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/vertebroplasty/about/pac-20385207
Your post length is fine.. no worries. I do write some rather long posts myself because I have a lot of information to share. Sometimes patients have to fight to get treatment they need. I'm sorry you were denied treatment that you needed. Are you improving with the brace and physical therapy? Are you considering a second opinion elsewhere?
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I think I need to get a second opinion. I don’t have money to go outside of Kaiser, but hopefully another doctor there would be open minded and take a new look. As you picked up on, that doctor was so unconcerned that I was amazed! It seems like she was only interested in my low back issues barely talked about the fracture. But yes she did say because of Covid they were not doing surgeries … or that kind of surgery I don’t know. I’ve been doing a lot of research tonight on “cement “. I saw a couple articles that said if it’s been over a year that it shouldn’t be done. I must say that made me extremely disappointed. The thought of not getting better is very b depressing.
Yes I have improved. But not much. I can stand about 20 minutes to do dishes. And then I have to lay down put ice on my back.
Did your mother have a fracture for very long before it healed? I’m happy for her that it did heal