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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: PA
Posts: 289
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: PA
Posts: 289
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Lou,
It is just my opinion, but I would stick with your doc....I do not know though if I would go for a fusion at your age...Why don't you see a few other surgeons for opinions and see if one doesn't suggest a laminectomy to you? Where are you located? Florida? There must be some good, top docs, near you...see one of them and see what they have to say about the laminectomy... Maybe you could go to a rehabilatation center after surgery for a while until you are up and on your feet. My pain management doc was going to send me to one after my surgery...
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4/06 - Lumbar Fusion - L1, L2, L3, L4, L5, S1
Anterior with cages and Posterior with rods and screws.
8/17/05 - Cervical Fusion - C4-5, 5-6, 6-7 - Anterior and Posterior Fusion with plate in front and rods and screws in the rear - Corpectomy at C-4 and C-5 and microdisectomy at C6-7.
1/4/05 - Lumbar Laminectomy -L3, L4, L5, S1, S2 Obliteration of Tarlov Cyst at S2. Failed surgery!
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