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Spinal fusion: Hardware removal
Spine Health | Last Active: Mar 20 12:37pm | Replies (32)Comment receiving replies
You have my sincere sympathies for your continued pain. I had a revision surgery July24,2023, at Mayo. The surgeon removed my prior hardware from fusion on L4-5, then extended down L5-S1, in a minimally invasive fusion. He prescribed 3 months of wearing a brace, doing only walking, PT after that. I had significant pain after my first fusion, it felt better after a few weeks, then the pain worsened and never improved. I don’t know if this will be the answer, but I am improving, the pain is less now. I feel a release from something, was the hardware touching a nerve? I feel it was. But in any case, it can be removed in revision surgery, get some consultations! Wishing you the best.
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Hi ga29,
Thank you for your response. That does give me some hope. Like you, I feel it's touching a nerve. My surgeon keeps telling me that Nerves do not like to be touched and they take a long time to recover. I understand that, but this is ridiculous. When he was informing me about the surgery before I had it, he made it sound like my pain will be gone and I will have no more pain and he did not inform me this could happen with what I'm dealing with now. There are so many times I really wish I didn't have the surgery and delt with the pain that I previously had. It was bad but not as bad as the pains I have now. I just want to rip it out!
I will definitely look into getting some consultations. Wishing you the best as well.