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| iSpine Discuss Extrusion from one level to another! in the Main forums forums; I hope all goes wonderfully for Diane. She couldn't be in better hands. IF I ever submit to surgery, ... |
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07-28-2007, 02:30 PM
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I hope all goes wonderfully for Diane. She couldn't be in better hands. IF I ever submit to surgery, I'll be flying there all the way from Oz, because I would have to pay for any op out of my insurance payout, I may as well spend a couple of thousand more and get the best in the world.
She is sooo lucky to have you on her side Mark. Take care Hucky
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MVA April 2003 - Whiplash C6/7, MRI shows large right paracentral disc protrusion with extension centrally. Mild compression of cervical cord and obscuring the neural foramen and exiting nerve root. No uncinate process hypertrophy no facet joint degeneration. no left neural foramina narrowing. 1200mg of Neurontin. In the last 3 years have seen 1 gen surg, 2 neurosurg and 1 ortho surg. All rec fusion, only 1 recommends ADR or fusion. Have been off Neurontin since Nov 2006 
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07-29-2007, 12:38 AM
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Wishing you the best!
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07-31-2007, 07:36 AM
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Diane has surgery in a couple of hours.
Good news, bad news.... New MRI (never would have been done anywere else) shows dramatic shrinking of sequester... completely different situation. Symptoms are still getting worse, but the size and shape of the fragment is way different. It has shrunk down to the immediate protrusion outside of the bulge.... hence the still worsening symptoms as the bulge should be much denser now and it is still on nerve root ganglion. Armed with the new MRI, she's no longer an extremed case and they don't have to fish around where the fragment used to be.... doing surgery open or endoscopic based on the old MRI (just a couple of months old) would have meant a lot of unnecessary looking and poking. More later..... gotta go now.
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1997 MVA 2000 L4-5 Microdiscectomy/laminotomy 2001 L5-S1 Micro-d/lami 2002 L4-S1 Charite' ADR - SUCCESS! 2009 C3-C4, C5-C6-C7, T1-T2 ProDisc-C Nova Summer 2009, more bad thoracic discs! Life After Surgery Website President: Global Patient Network, Inc. Founder: www.iSpine.org
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07-31-2007, 05:59 PM
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Wishing Diane the best. My thoughts are with her.
Dale
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3 level Prodisc adr S1-L3, Oct 12, 2005 Dr. B in Bogen, Germany Severe nerve damage in left leg, still working on it
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07-31-2007, 07:31 PM
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Here is the update I just sent to my family....
New MRI shows that disc has shrunken dramatically. I'm so glad we came here. Nobody else would have gotten a new MRI and they would have been poking around, looking for something that is no longer there. New configuration made her a very average case... no longer pushing the limits of endoscopy. Her surgery was about 2pm today... done before 3pm. She was awake for much of it, but doesn't remember any of it. She walked out of the hospital about 5pm and has been resting comfortably ever since. Pain medication is almost nil... just some Tylenol and codeine. We'll see how she is after their medications wear off. No significant event from surgery to report.... no new pain or neuro deficit. Legs appear to have normal feeling on both sides.... still too early to tell. We'll see how she is tomorrow. All good so far. There is some potential for cervical issues... I'll have more to say later in week. Lumbar went great today. Love to all... send pictures of Zoey! Dad
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1997 MVA 2000 L4-5 Microdiscectomy/laminotomy 2001 L5-S1 Micro-d/lami 2002 L4-S1 Charite' ADR - SUCCESS! 2009 C3-C4, C5-C6-C7, T1-T2 ProDisc-C Nova Summer 2009, more bad thoracic discs! Life After Surgery Website President: Global Patient Network, Inc. Founder: www.iSpine.org
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