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Sorry to hear that your recovery is not going well after removing the ankle hardware and...
your recovery is not going well after removing ... the ankle hardware and the wound is ... comments by other members on "hardware ... removal surgery not healing" - ... search=hardware%20removal%20surgery%
Posted: 1 day ago
I'm 71 and had a crainiotomy for one of two meningiomas pressing on my optic nerve...
home two days after August '23 surgery ... to remove any infection which did not ... infection in the bone flap from the hardware ... After that all was removed this past ... The surgeon who removed the items causing
Support Group: Brain Tumor
Posted: 3 days ago
OK, you asked for it. Fell skiing hard on my lower back and buttocks in 2016....
After the healing process, no improvement ... to the good, old, "Failed back urgery ... I finally had the old SCS hardware ... removed in May of 2024 in order to have
Discussion: Gabapentin dosing
Support Group: Neuropathy
Posted: Sep 28 9:20am
@blaira I had a bad ankle fracture 4 years ago, and I had my titanium hardware...
removed. ... All that resolved after the hardware ... was removed. ... It's another surgery, but not as ... I hope you get the healing your looking
Posted: Sep 15 3:14pm
@jong I don't think there is an exact way to correlate your current condition with your...
current condition with your spinal hardware ... would likely be hard to convince to remove ... more hardware. ... You are still healing and growing bone ... because it is directing energy to healing
Support Group: Spine Health
Posted: Sep 9 4:39pm
@cockatoolady Recovery after surgery to remove hardware should be a lot easier than recovery after fracture...
@cockatoolady Recovery after surgery ... to remove hardware should be a lot ... than recovery after fracture fixation surgery ... It sounds like the path to better healing ... Removing the hardware got me back to
Posted: Sep 18 1:43pm
@brycek112 Did they say what is causing your DDD at such a young age? Did you...
had L3-L5 decompression and fusion surgery ... symptoms are improved while in the healing ... spondylolisthesis) so they needed to use hardware ... movement and support fusion plus they removed ... I had my surgery done by an orthopedic
Support Group: Spine Health
Posted: Sep 20 6:29am
I am hoping to get some useful suggestions for my peripheral neuropathy. I will describe it...
an left ankle fracture treated by surgery ... , and a second surgery to clear up an ... infection from the first, (and remove ... the hardware). ... , and others who all said it would heal
Support Group: Neuropathy
Posted: Aug 11, 2022
@candy101 I understand being careful about Covid, but hospitals have been Covid testing patients before allowing...
I had surgery for a broken ankle at ... to remove the surgical hardware. ... I had to pass a Covid test before surgery ... osteoporosis, and she had a brace while it healed ... , and it did heal.
Discussion: Fractured spine
Support Group: Spine Health
Posted: Jun 8, 2022
Lots of bad stories to begin with. I had AMS installed August 2021. 3 weeks later,...
Finally, Dec 2021 had a revision surgery ... Emergency surgery 2 days later to remove ... all the hardware. ... Catheter in for 8 weeks to heal it all ... Not all surgeries will turn out how
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Posted: May 31, 2022
My situation may not be as life threatening but I stupidly rolled out of bed and...
Looked at my X-ray, said no surgery ... my X-ray and declared “this won’t heal ... Had surgery the next week. ... I had a follow up surgery to remove ... the hardware 6 months later.
You will start to feel improvement when all the hardware is removed, & the infections clear...
start to feel improvement when all the hardware ... is removed, & the infections clear ... improves quickly once your body finishes healing ... from the surgery/setbacks.
Support Group: Colorectal Cancer
Posted: Sep 20, 2022
@lucky77 (continued from previous post) It has been a year since my hardware was removed, and...
After hardware removal, you are at risk ... left by the screws, until the bone heals ... After my surgical hardware removal, ... Removing the fixation hardware was the ... There is a recovery again after a surgery
@amywood20 I would encourage you to get several opinions about your C spine. Surgeons use different...
patients with hardware do. ... If you have hardware placed on your ... this and the fusion shrinks as it heals ... bone graft and my surgeon said it heals ... don't push too hard for a faster recover
Support Group: Spine Health
Posted: Nov 9, 2019
@mlerin With stenosis, when it is bad enough and causing nerve compression, epidurals may not have...
clean out the compression without removing ... the central canal, they access it by removing ... recovery and had a fusion without hardware ... inflammation which is a step toward healing ... a better choice of fusion without hardware
Support Group: Spine Health
Posted: Nov 4, 2019
@luoness, I have had spine surgery twice 2012 removing a cyst at L5 S1 which gave...
@luoness, I have had spine surgery twice ... 2012 removing a cyst at L5 S1 which ... I had surgery including 4 rods, screws ... I am in excellence shape since the hardware ... healed.
Is your wound doctor doing tests on the leakage? Is it lymp fluid? Or is it...
infection, did they try silver for healing ... If infection, the only course is to remove ... the hardware but that still doesn&#39 ... was the catalyst for the last three surgeries
I had the same surgery done on both legs back in 2017 and screws removed 2018....
I had the same surgery done on both ... legs back in 2017 and screws removed ... My right leg ended up rejecting the hardware ... Everything has healed wonderfully. ... knee became infected a week after surgery
Posted: Sep 19, 2019
Yes! I had cervical 4-5, 5-6, 6-7 done. I had excellent results for several years. However...
after rotator cuff and labrum tear surgery ... says it’s a huge operation as the hardware ... I presently have has to be removed ... thoracic spine is also herniated and surgery ... thoracic spine and the reason I’m not healing
Support Group: Spine Health
Posted: Mar 11, 2021
Hello @jayjew69 and welcome to Connect. You had quite an ordeal and I hope things are...
Recovering from your surgery is exhausting ... also add that I had a fusion without hardware ... taking food by mouth again as well as recover ... from the spine surgery. ... of DVDs and slept a lot when I was recovering
Support Group: Spine Health
Posted: Jul 21, 2021