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Excruciating chronic left side neck pain plus lumbar issues
Spine Health | Last Active: Nov 18, 2023 | Replies (360)Comment receiving replies
Alfred, I watched the video by Dr. Sue and was very impressed. Here is some info from the web but it is based on U.S. medical guidelines and yours may differ.
What are the indications for cervical laminoplasty?
Current indications for laminoplasty include cervical myelopathy or myeloradiculopathy secondary to OPLL, cervical spondylosis, congenital stenosis, multilevel disk herniation, and traumatic central cord syndrome.
You certainly have multi-level issues with myelopathy, disk herniation, nerve root compression. How is your overall health otherwise? What is your BMI? Jules
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Hi
I am not sure about the myelopathy because I asked the pain doctor and he said no that I didn't.
I don't about my BMI but I weigh 76.4 kg and I am 170 cm high. I used to be 173 cm when I was younger. Last year before the bad pain started I was 69 kg.
As far as laminoplasty goes there isn't much in Australia. The US is much more advanced than us in the world down under.
My health is good as far as my liver, kidneys, heart and lungs go. I used to be a long distance road bike rider for 20 years. I use to cover anything from 50, 70, 80, 100, 140, 160 to 200 km in a day depending on the occasion. My average ride would have been 90 km. My heart beat is anything between 41 and 50 beats per minute due 20 years of physical activity that also included working out at the gym. I am not a smoker and I probably used to drink half a glass of red wine at dinner time.
Anyway I the last 2 weeks thing got worse and hope that these will improve somehow of the next few weeks.
Today I managed to drive with my collar on to see my friend who lives 20 minutes away.
Seeing again made me feel good.
Thank you.
Best regards
Alfred