Hi there Miss Scottish. That back surgery is some crazy stuff. Before my surgery all I could find is people who said they had it and it worked great. Now that I've had the surgery it's hard to find anyone who says it worked! If I would have know that I wouldn't have had it. My docs never mentioned follow on back surgery but that just may be because they know I won't do it. My surgery lasted nine hours and I didn't wake up for five days. I spent those days in ICU because of a drug reaction. Those five days just never existed to me. I was told by a few nurses that they almost lost me and that's when I said no more surgeries!

My ortho doc wanted me to have cervical spine surgery a few years ago to fix my arms and neck but I ran out of the hospital when I was registering. I just said that I can't do this and had them cut the wristbands off and out the door I went.

When they took your disks out, how did they do it? I was told it's easier to remove the disc if they go in from the front so now I have a scar that's 21 staples long to the side of my stomach and 19 staples in my back.

How are your medical facilities in Scotland? I'm in the middle of nowhere in Texas and I question how up to date our doctors are down here. I really think that how the procedure was performed had something to do with the outcome. You can talk to the doctors until you're blue in the face but the ones down here don't seem to want to get up to date on current practices.

Good luck if you go with another surgery. There's not many choices though unless you want to be on those darned drugs forever.

Take care...Gregg