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redo fusion surgery

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richard88201
richard88201

Had Tlif 10/27/15 no bone growth Alot of pain while moving certain ways and the longer on my feet pain gets worse not a 10 level but more like hmm 5-7 then the burning in the right leg. My NS told me yesterday that he needed to go back in and redo it .My concern is being out of work last time it was 8 weeks and one month working 4 hr shifts. I asked if going in from the side be better he said yes and the Olif is a very good for me and said he does not do that so he is sending me to another Dr they can do this Olif as a outpatient that seems hard to believe This waiting thing drives me crazy my appointment with the new dr is 6-21-16 and have appointment with the PA on Monday and who knows when the surgery will be

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  • scott17436
    scott17436 richard88201

    Posted

    That's frustrating. At least he has recognised that it hasn't worked and it needs done again by another surgeon.

    I'm hoping mines has worked. I'm 3.5 weeks post double ALIF S1-L4 and have been ok. I've got nerve pain in my left buttock every 5 days or so but apart from that I'm good. Walking more but with a very small stride pattern.

    Have they said why it didn't grow? I know smokers have a reduced chance of it being successful but would like to know why, if you have been given an answer?

  • Laura3333
    Laura3333 richard88201

    Posted

    What's Tlif?

    I had a fusion a lot of years ago, they took bone from my pelvis and my problem is, the bone started growing and not evenly over the years, so the fusion itself had caused damage.

    I wish that it could be unfurled, but it can't.

     

  • Laura3333
    Laura3333 richard88201

    Posted

    I can't even begin to imagine that they could do any spinal procedure on an outpatient basis, suppose things have changed.

    I was in hospital for three weeks.

    • richard88201
      richard88201 Laura3333

      Posted

      My first surgery was in 1999 2 level fusion in hospital 6 days 7 hour surgery. then this one was 1,5 hours and 3 days in hospital. Now the redo can be done outpatient at the doctors office which is called the backcenter in melborne florida but I will have it done at the hospital because of insurance reason plus I feel better at the hospital
    • Laura3333
      Laura3333 richard88201

      Posted

      Yes, I'd feel better in hospital, just in case.

      I'm in the uk. Had mine done in 1983, things will have changed so much since then.

      I was in a body cast to stop me bending for four months after that, it was torture.

    • richard88201
      richard88201 Laura3333

      Posted

      So You only had the one surgery? The level above never gave you a problem? If so that is great!
    • Laura3333
      Laura3333 richard88201

      Posted

      I had a laminectomy - decompression first, that didn't help, so I had an L5- S1 fusion, they didn't have MRI's in those days, and the level fused turned out to be tha wrong one.

      The bone has kept growing and making new bone, but more at one side than the other.

      yes the level above, plus the level above that, have been pulled to one side, and I have been in constant pain for over thirty years, and wish I had never had it done, but at the time it was my only chance of living a normal life.

      I have been registered as disabled ever since.

      I really hope your surgery helps you.

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