CD-Horizon

[fischotter]

Hello,
my 4 Op`s were in 3 different German Hospitals. The first 3 OP´s were OK, although they broke. There was no one who was able to tell me why the broke. before the forth OP, i was told they would use a new sort or implant. after about one year the problems startet. I have been about 7 times to look up the problems. first the doctors where very happy to to something and after a short time they had no intrest any more. they gave me more drugs and sent me home.

ciao

Peter

[fischotter]

Hello,
after i wrote to the last hospital where i was operated, they wrote back to me taht they used material from medtronic. they wrote also that they didn´t use cd-horizon. i wrote back to them that cd-horizon was a product of medtronic. i haven´t received an answer.
Now, i have got a date in the Muenster uni-hospital.

Ciao

Peter

[jsewell]

Hello Peter,
Is the date at the hospital with a new doctor to evaluate the pain? I wish you good luck with this and make sure you let us know what happens.
My daughter-in-law to be lives in Germany. I need to find out from my son exactly where. I only know it is a small town and she flies to visit from the Frankfurt airport. I hope someday to visit your country if i can stay out of the OR and my back can stay in control!
judy

[fischotter]

Hallo Jsewell,
thank you dor your mail. I have got a date in the Uni-Clinic Münster, here in germany. it is not possible for me to get a date earlyer. But they told me to phone up every friday to check if somebody cancelled his date.

Let me wait and hope that something happens.

Ciao

Peter

[Maria]

Hi Peter,
First of all let me say welcome to this forum and sorry you're experiencing the probs you are.

I'm wondering what diagnostics show in terms of pain generators such as myelograms, discograms, MRIs, CT scans and such.

Then I'm thinking (uneducated opinion here) that anyone with such a degree of surgerized spine may have offset the natural balance of things and have pain that is just mechanical/structural in nature due to surrounding structures having to adjust.

I may be way off there though my own experience has been that my L5S1 was operated on and then L4 was operated on. For a long time after that I had quite a lot of pain and differing types. I was told too much disc was removed at L4 making my spine more unstable but not enough for a fusion (was told I could have a 3 level global fusion 8 years later or two level ADR 11 years later or hybrid surgery 13 years later). Anyway I just think that one surgery often begets another or more problems.

Not with everyone I'm sure and there are of course reasons why people have pain/probs and some can be taken care of successfully and are and some maybe not.

I didn't want to chance the maybe not again so I just stuck with no more surgery to date. I live on low dose pain medication although have stopped taking a med that I took for 12 years (Neurontin) and am doing better.

In the scheme of knowing anything revelent to your particular case however I know nothing so the one person here that could probably help you the most would be Mark. I would speak to him.

GPN Artificial Disc Replacement ADR

Or pose a question to him here or hopefully he'll reply to your thread. There are others that are knowledgable as well that can give you better direction. I'm just "supposing" as they would say in English.

Good luck w/upcoming consults! Please keep us posted.

[jsewell]

Peter,
What is the date you have? I want to be sending good thoughts your way.
judy

[fischotter]

Hello,

10 days ago i sent an email to the german medtronic office. I havn't got an answer from them. I don't know why they are not answering but i think there is someting wrong with their Implants.

ciao
Peter