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@solom174 Yes, I understand that you are recovering from surgery now. I do hope that it...
Healing after invasive surgery is exhausting ... I asked for a fusion without hardware ... is and how they recover from it and ... , and I've had the fixation hardware ... removed, I still have pain from the
Support Group: Spine Health
Posted: Sep 18, 2023
kathy64, you may have surgery to remove the device. You should not have had this procedure...
kathy64, you may have surgery to remove ... It is often used with spinal hardware ... It will help heal the break and strenghten ... Of course, the surgery failed.
@victoriah Fusions were done without hardware and patients wore neck braces before the plates were invented....
victoriah Fusions were done without hardware ... It heals better with a bone graft instead ... During my surgery, the bone disc was ... Laser spine surgery is limited in what ... spinal canal, they can do that by removing
Support Group: Brain & Nervous System
Posted: Aug 17, 2022
@birdman518 Mitch, it is perfectly OK to vent here, and that is preferable. I have had...
experience where I had carpal tunnel surgery ... With your very recent surgery, there ... your body is exhausted just trying to heal ... the surgeon said it was OK and just removed ... correction" that would involve hardware
Support Group: Spine Health
Posted: Feb 2, 2022
I was injured in 1988 and had subsequent L5 laminectomy w/ L4-S2 fusion w/ stainless steel...
BTW I was offered the removal of my ... current hardware and replacing it with ... new modern hardware in 2016 but living ... their hands so take control of your healing ... All the surgeries have most likely left
Support Group: Chronic Pain
Posted: Dec 13, 2021
In 2014, I jumped off a catamaran in Hawaii onto the beach and my right foot...
I flew home to NC and had surgery within ... I remember seeing the X-rays of my surgery ... the hardware and he said “oh I wouldn ... he felt uneasy I think about tissue healing ... so long after surgery (8-9 years?)
Posted: Aug 1, 2021
Hi, I just recently broken my tibia and gotten surgery and doing PT. I haven’t started...
recently broken my tibia and gotten surgery ... everyone’s comments I’m worried that the hardware ... The doc said 1 year at least, but it heals ... in 2 to 4 months from the surgery. ... you had them in before getting them removed
Posted: Jul 11, 2021
Hello, I recently in the last 4 days had my hardware removed in order to heal...
recently in the last 4 days had my hardware ... removed in order to heal the bones ... to prepare for the 3rd surgery to replace ... Surgery went well. ... Now waiting for my bones to heal and
Posted: Apr 25, 2021
I too got an infection in my left TKR 2 years after surgery. The infection did...
infection in my left TKR 2 years after surgery ... The surgeon removed the knee hardware ... months in the hospital, had a second surgery ... The surgery left me with a 10 cm by ... currently on a Wound Vac to hopefully heal
Support Group: Joint Replacements
Posted: Nov 22, 2020
Hi. I had a long fusion, T4-L3, and was quite thin at that time. The hardware...
The hardware was giving me a lot of ... meds, rest, and PT, my doc decided to remove ... all the hardware. ... my fusion was healed/ intact. ... I wouldn’t recommend a second surgery
Support Group: Spine Health
Posted: Aug 21, 2019
@jbro I've had four surgeries, but never had a hip replacement hardware. I had broken bones...
, but never had a hip replacement hardware ... I had broken bones that would not heal ... The last surgery was on 04/2017 removing ... of my left femur (girdlestone) and removing ... It was my fourth surgery, removed lots
Posted: Nov 18, 2018
@clayhere @johnbishop @artscaping Hi Chris, Yes you're absolutely right about MFR and the layers underneath the...
I did have spine surgery at Mayo, and ... had to recover and rehab from that ... because of stopping therapy during healing ... 4 months because I didn't want hardware ... rebuilding the muscle I lost before surgery
Support Group: Neuropathy
Posted: Aug 31, 2018
@vennas217 Hello and welcome to Connect. You have a complex decision to make that doesn't come...
answer you question, this will not heal ... Surgery with hardware will also require ... patience in healing. ... that when all the old dental work was removed ... good question to ask if it can be removed
Support Group: Spine Health
Posted: Jan 4 9:37pm
@judyeccles Definitely see an orthopedic spine specialist and get an updated MRI of your spine, both...
The “healing” of your L2 vertebrae bone ... Surgery will be in my near future again ... (just had my lumbar spine surgery in ... August 2024 and still recovering. ... fusion of C5-C6 and will add more hardware
Discussion: Neuropathy
Support Group: Neuropathy
Posted: Nov 21, 2024
@barbjo I can understand how you are in some uncharted territory wondering what your skin will...
fix the ankle in place with surgical hardware ... in the 2nd surgery. ... The 3rd surgery was to remove the hardware ... a couple months after the cast was removed ... My husband also had melanoma removed
Support Group: Melanoma & Skin Cancer
Posted: May 24, 2022
I had a crainiotomy Aug 2023 in the south for a left frontal meningioma pressing on...
Immediate MRI and surgery - It was resected ... The hardware implanted in the bone flap ... Had a washout surgery for infection ... Extreme headaches required removal of ... Flap had not healed to surrounding bone
Support Group: Brain Tumor
Posted: May 10, 2024
1993 I had a cervical fusion with no hardware. Sensitivity to collared shirts and necklaces but...
Posterior hardware removed the following ... The muscles were twisted so another surgery ... that unfortunately removed “steak sized ... the doctor for a short time but it heals ... Hope for healing. Theresa
I would add that it is important to keep track of your incision. Mine became infected,...
infected, the reason being infected hardware ... which then had to be removed before ... bone flap could heal. ... happen - even after weeks from the surgery
Support Group: Brain Tumor
Posted: Apr 25, 2024
@upstatephil Here's what I know about removing surgical hardware. I had plates and screws removed from...
Of course healing an ankle fracture ... my cervical spine surgery, and in saying ... that, my spine surgery was a single ... level simple anterior ACDF surgery ... Judging after everything was healed,
@upstatephil Phil, that is a fantastic reply, so thank you! I hope I wasn't putting you...
space the thickness of a disc that was removed ... body was directing all my energy to healing ... of the body to do it's magic in healing ... because I asked for a fusion without hardware ... different in what we need and how we recover
Support Group: Spine Health
Posted: Jan 20, 2024