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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Paradise
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Location: Paradise
Posts: 855
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Originally Posted by jimglynn
What's the one thing you know now that you wish you had known before your spinal procedure? I go in the 29th for a lumbar fusion so these responses will be invaluable.
thanks
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Jimglynn,
I have seen 75-100 go to discectomy or fusion surgery over 20 years. I can only remember one who was a train wreck afterwards. The rest were satisfied with the outcome. I know that is better than the stated odds, maybe it is the surgeons who did their surgeries, I don't know. Proper patient selection is huge.
But if you are contemplating surgery and plan on moving forward, then you must trust your doc, so don't fall to prey to what you hear here. It is a decision that only you and your doc can make!
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