Hi jthomas458,

How are you?

I am sorry to hear about your condition.

I think that it is to early to say whether the laser surgery and the ryzothomies have worked or not. Time will tell.

I will not be seeking anymore operations.

Laser surgery for spine has been around for at least 17 years from what I read. A lot of health insurers consider this type of surgery experimental and that's is why they don't cover patients for these procedures. Health insurers mainly cover main stream procedures like fusion, laminoplasty etc.

This doesn't mean that laser surgery is bad at all. With any spinal procedures, whether they are fusion, laminoplasty, laser, there are risks and complications even with the best surgeons in the world. I read a lot about fusion and a percentage of people still feel the pain afterwards even though the surgery was a success. Dr DEUK told me that my procedures were a success but this doesn't always imply that you are going to be pain free.

I received a compensation here in Australia by the traffic accident insurer that I used to pay for Dr DEUK procedures which cost over $70k.

A lot of his patients got relief from his procedures which are minimally invasive because he repairs the disc by removing the bulges, herniations and the bone spurs. I found that these laser procedures are also performed successfully in Italy, Germany, Thailand.

What convinced me to use dr DEUK was the fact that I would not require a fusion where muscles and bones are cut, that it was minimally invasive, that was an outpatient procedure and PubMed had mentioned Dr Deuk's laser technology.

With any surgery no one can claim a 100% success rate. Dr DEUK success rate sits at 95% according to his website. I watched dozens of his live video operations with successful outcomes, dozens of satisfied patient's video testimonials, hundreds of reviews which were mostly positive. I am sure that if he were a bad operator people would know about it and that he wouldn't be able to to run his business for much longer.

I noticed that since the surgery, I am getting a lot of neck cracking inside which is probably due to the deteriorated and ablated facet joints.

I will keep praying out Lord 🙏.

I hope things will improve for you too.

I am dead set to keep fighting to stay alive as long as I can.

I used to be a long distance cyclist and still have the cyclists's grit in me. Never give up.