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Spine Health | Last Active: Nov 3 8:03am | Replies (34)
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Thank you Jennifer for your wonderful explanation. I believe this is what my doctor wants to do with 3 of my vertebraes T11, T12 and L1 but others may be required as there is degeneration from L3 to L5. My surgeon is calling it a vertebrectomy, cage and fusion to lombar as you said. My vertebraes are eroding like they have an infection so he would need to replace them with donated femur bone. How did your surgical fusion go?
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@suev I'm sorry, I missed your question to me. If you wanted to alert me to a response, you can "at mention" me by typing @jenniferhunter in your post. That will flag me with a notification. My cervical fusion was very successful and it took care of all the pain I had which was due to spinal cord compression. It has been several years since then and I'm still doing well. It probably took about 6 months to recover since I needed to do rehab after being in a neck brace for 3 months. That was because I wanted a fusion without any spine hardware. Thank you for asking. This was the story that Mayo did about me. https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/using-the-art-of-medicine-to-overcome-fear-of-surgery/
Have you had surgery for your spine or are you in the process of waiting for a surgery? Did you get other opinions from different doctors? I sounds like your surgeon wants to remove and replace vertebrae which sounds very involved. Did they give you a reason for the erosion of bone and how to stop that from happening?