Your the second person I've correponded with who had an absess with dynesys hardware. There is another fellow over on spine health whose surgery is more recent. One of the reasons the FDA didn't approve the dynesys for standalone installation was because many of the test patients also had decompression surgery. So what helped, the decompression or the dynesys? No way to tell if you don't isolate the variables. I had mine removed after developing awful nerve pain with the dynesys. One neurosurgeon I talked to said the indications are not clear for the dynesys but are probably smaller than what surgeons are using them for. His opinion was the dynesys was probably useful in case of wide lami to offset potentional for instability.
Good luck.
John
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weightlifting injury 1990
Dx DDD 1994 L4 - S1
IDET 2001 - some initial relief but didnt last
Dynesys stabalization and decompression May 07
Removed Nov 08 Due to persistant debilitation bilateral nerve pain which resolved with removal
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