Multi level fusion - FBSS - Running

First up: there is a warm place in hell for the person who created the login procedures for this website. I've never seen anything like it....it's unprecedented. You would think this is a government website.

So...here's the story:

playing soccer in late 2015, couldn't get out of bed one day.

Called a back specialist and he said my back was "shot".

March 2016 went in for multi level surgery...L3-L4-L5 fusion.

All went well. I was able to run again in 6 months.

Well, by 2020, things degraded....and I had progressive situation like this:

Run 5k, run/walk 5k, walk 5k, could no longer walk 5k

needed a cane or walker

The progression was amazing. So I called my surgeon back up and after xrays, he said I needed another surgery.

This time it was for L3-L4-L5-S1.

Had new surgery in early 2020....it only lasted 2 weeks and I was back to excruciating pain.

The doc cut me off from oxycodone, so there were several 911 trips to the ER....as my wife would see me on the floor face down.

March 2021...got a new doc...a neurosurgeon....and he recommended another surgery.

That happened in June 2021. That surgery was fabulous...it fixed the major problem:

the screws in the lumbar supports had loosened....and this was causing major nerve impingement.

He rebuilt the existing structure with new screw placements. He said some of the screws were not placed

correctly into hard bone...instead they were into softer tissue.

So my question to all of you: Do I have a legal case against this first surgeon who had not 1 but 2 FBSS - Failed Back Surgery Syndrome.

What say ye ?

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