I had surgery to fuse where an artificial disc had been put in 4 years earlier. Doctor said new disc got loose and was breaking off bone fragments and he thought he had it all cleaned up. Sent me home on OxyContin. He knew it was bad. Had rods and screws put in and artificial disc stayed in also. Well it looks like something got into the spinal canal sack and dug into the arachnoid membrane that helps protect the nerves and now there is 5 lower levels filled with scar tissue.. there is nobody can fix or treat this because if they try to remove the scar tissue it only creates more. With all the surgery in that area I have been told I would only have a 50/50 chance of coming off of the operating table alive because there is no way to see the blood vessels. My pain doctor only reads radiologist report and I had to get him to look at Ortho doctors report to get him to understand I have the Arachnoiditis. He still says he is not sure. I saw the MRI at the Orthopedic doctors office and he showed me the difference on different levels of my spine. You could not miss this unless you were blind.
I am going to let him know he needs to go back and look at mine and maybe a lot others he has read to see how wrong he has been.