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Back Operation #4 Tomorrow

v35v35 Member Posts: 12,710 ✭✭✭
edited April 2013 in General Discussion
Hopefully by this time tomorrow, results will be positive.
The Neurosurgeon used the term "severe impingement" in his diagnosis.
He will cut off two bony intrusions and do some other grinding between L4-5 and L5-S1 bilaterally.
It will be good to get off Percoset which works but gives me bad dreams.
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  • Old-ColtsOld-Colts Member Posts: 22,697 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hope everything goes well and you get relief as well as improved back functions!!!!!

    If you can't feel the music; it's only pink noise!

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  • Marc1301Marc1301 Member Posts: 31,895 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I will be looking for the results, as I am being led done the surgery route for similar reasons. Lumbar spine, as well as cervical.

    I keep trying to deal with the pain, but being as I can't take NSAID's, and choose to pass on the pain pills,.......I figure it's coming before too long.[xx(]
    "Beam me up Scotty, there's no intelligent life down here." - William Shatner
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  • HandLoadHandLoad Member Posts: 15,998 ✭
    edited November -1
    Wife has decided to get it done before the advent of O'Blamer"Care" is in Full FLower, so before 2014, we will be following your Footsteps.

    Best wished for a speedy and Complete Recovery!
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  • cercer Member Posts: 826 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Good Luck. I hope it helps your pain.
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  • v35v35 Member Posts: 12,710 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    This time a well recommended neurosurgeon will operate.
    Operation No 2 in 2009 did more harm than good. A back man cut into the spinal (thecal) sac at L 3-4 and jammed in a blob of sealant to close off the fluid leak. The resultant intrusion looks like a major injury in an MRI. He then followed up with a cockeyed,one sided fusion with an off center disc spacer. The pain on awakening and for some time thereafter was out of this world, leading to a need for further operations.
    #3, a decompression below that site, a year ago didn't do anything according to the neurosurgeon.
    Backing into a wooden Aeronca propeller on the upstroke in '62 did the major damage. Subsequent injuries added to it.
    The neurosurgeon didn't mince words when he said "That's a really bad back.
    Thanks for your well wishes.
    Bob
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  • spasmcreekspasmcreek Member Posts: 37,717 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    good plan...only thing worse than the pain is the drugs...sent me home after first shoulder surgery with lortab..took one and it made my head feel so bad i toughed it out without anything...took nothing for the second shoulder surgery...
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  • montanajoemontanajoe Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 60,159 ******
    edited November -1
    Dang V,you've been through a lot. Hopefully this operation will be the one to do the trick. Prayers and best wishes. Update when you can.
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  • OakieOakie Member Posts: 40,526 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Three back surgeries, two implants and I am still on pain pills. Hopefully you will be better then me. I will be praying for a great outcome. Keep us posted. Oakie
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  • e3mrke3mrk Member Posts: 1,851 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Best of Luck.
    You should feel a lot better once the Pressure is relieved.
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  • pwilliepwillie Member Posts: 20,253 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I suffered many years with back pain until I met a real Neurosurgeon...He did a small incision in my lower back,cleaned out the junk in my disc,and I have been pain free since 9/11....yes, I saw the "Towers" come down during recoop....
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  • montanajoemontanajoe Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 60,159 ******
    edited November -1
    Anyone hear from V ?? Update??
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  • montanajoemontanajoe Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 60,159 ******
    edited November -1
    btt,again
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  • cercer Member Posts: 826 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hope surgery works for the good.
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  • montanajoemontanajoe Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 60,159 ******
    edited November -1
    Glad to see you're back to posting. How are you doing,did this one seem to do the trick or to early to tell yet??
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  • Bill JordanBill Jordan Member Posts: 1,402 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    D0n't let them take a graft out of Your back: use the cadaver graft.
    Ask me how I know!!!!!!!!!!

    On Viconidin, Fentanyl, and Lidoderm.
    Every freaking day.
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  • fishkiller41fishkiller41 Member Posts: 50,608
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by montanajoe
    Glad to see you're back to posting. How are you doing,did this one seem to do the trick or to early to tell yet??
    I don't even see where he posted,who U talkin to[?][?]
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  • COLTCOLT Member Posts: 12,637 ******
    edited November -1
    Best of luck & a speedy recovery!...[;)]
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  • v35v35 Member Posts: 12,710 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Thanks, I got a bladder infection from three catheterizations and spent
    9 hrs in the ER yesterday. They yanked the last catheter and gave me some IV antibiotic. I'm in and out of fever and bed.
    The surgeon showed up and took an MRI to look for infection at the site.Operative results were good but an infection set in.
    Rt leg is good as new. Left leg is stronger and I can now balance on it.
    Residual pain in L foot, instep, thigh and toes responds to hydrocodone.
    I'm very optimistic because this man identified L4-5 & L5-S1 on both sides
    clearly needing bone removal. Symptoms were largely on the left where I caught six prop upstrokes in the '60s.The stub is in the garage as a reminder.
    Interestingly, he said it was severe bone growth into nerves.It could have resulting from lowering of discs as I've had a few bike and other injuries before and since then.
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  • montanajoemontanajoe Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 60,159 ******
    edited November -1
    Glad the surgery went well. Now get that infection done with. Best to you.[:)][:)][:)]
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