Chuck,
From the research that theyve done with doing the fusion but leaving the disc in place showed that the patients still suffered from a lot of pain. Theyre going to take out the disc through an anterior approach and put in the cage and then bmp. Then theyre going to drill four holes in my back to put in the screws and the rods. Sounds pretty intense, but its less invasive than what the neurosurgeon wanted to do. I know that this is the only thing that will stop the terrible pain that I've been in. But I'm getting a little nervous, as is to be expected.
Blair
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2001 College Ice hockey injury
2002 DDD
2002-2004 epiderals
Spondylolisthesis
1/04 fall in Vegas
1/04-5/04 epiderals
6/24/04 Charite L5/S1
10/04-present new pain from facet joints caused by Charite; 10 facet blocks
12/06 rhizotomy left side
3/07 rhizotomy right side
5/10/2007 Charite removed, anterior IF, posterior instrumentation
180 mg MS-contin; Oxycodone; 16 mg Zanaflex
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