Forum: Surgical Outcomes and Blogs
01-14-2015, 04:31 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 8,267
wondering how you are
Have been having my own little sitting problem the last 6 weeks or so and not getting to check things out here much though am here now and wondering how you're progressing? I do hope you are making...
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Forum: iSpine
01-07-2015, 02:09 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 5,030
sounds good ...
Yes that wanting to get back to an active life be it work or whatever can sometimes be a downfall or a stumbling block, setback etc. with healing so please do try to get your father to not do...
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Forum: iSpine
01-05-2015, 08:14 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 4,452
re CT or MRI
Sorry Ash I prematurely tried to answer a post/questions by you without having read this.. I have no hardware in only two failed back surgeries/discectomies so hopefully someone here with ADRs will...
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Forum: iSpine
01-05-2015, 08:09 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 5,027
continued symptoms?
I'm guessing that you still have the same symptoms? Anyway you mentioned getting xrays. I don't think xrays will tell you if the L4 disc is compromised or if there is soft tissue type of concerns...
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Forum: Community Support - NSR
12-29-2014, 11:00 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 5,108
thank you Mark!
Going to check this out at a fresh sit.. meaning my low back has been torn up for 2 plus weeks now. Walking is fine, sleeping is painful until I sleep. sitting is brutal...
Got to get a laptop...
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Forum: Community Support - NSR
12-27-2014, 03:34 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 5,108
how to post photo here?
Just wondering if someone can tell me how to post a photo here if it's Ok. Be brutally specific please:D
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Forum: iSpine
12-20-2014, 04:14 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 5,030
uh oh..
I see that I was too late in replying.. I'm sorry. I do hope it went well and sorry again for being late with my reply.
Maria
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Forum: iSpine
12-19-2014, 06:32 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 5,030
re 6 months post op fusion
I think what I'd want to do is make sure the surgeon knows your father's progression to date physically. All to often it seems older patients and often men seem not to want to complain to much...
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Forum: iSpine
12-19-2014, 06:21 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 3,821
Ziggy
I'm not too sure how to post a photo of Lola here although maybe you could post a photo of Ziggy? Lola is much more sedate in the warmer weather and practically comatose in the summer heat .. her...
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Forum: iSpine
12-17-2014, 07:01 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 3,821
thanks Barbara
How are you doing btw .. been a while since you've posted.. I do hope all is well with you too!
I am doing even better today re my whole spine. Seems I am worse about a day or so before it's...
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Forum: iSpine
12-17-2014, 01:46 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 3,821
re today
Thanks for asking.. it bothered me all day yesterday to some degree even as I went to bed last night and I did something I felt a "catch" in that area. However today when I awakened after a near 5...
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Forum: iSpine
12-15-2014, 07:19 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 3,821
Thoracic spasm or ?
I know I have some problem at some thoracic level as I was told that long ago by my OSS and long before it ever bothered me at all (he thought this level would be next re problems but my cervical...
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Forum: iSpine
12-02-2014, 07:50 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 4,296
welcome
I'm so sorry to read that you are having this kind of pain. I was diagnosed with Arachnoiditis back in '92 after my 2nd spine surgery failed but there were no conclusive films that showed I...
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Forum: iSpine
11-10-2014, 08:59 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 4,467
re holding in place
it's a foreign object and the body generally will work to surround or encapsulate foreign objects with it's own means such as scar tissue, surrounding ligaments, tissue and such. I would imagine...
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Forum: Surgical Outcomes and Blogs
11-07-2014, 07:32 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 8,267
wow!
Ok wishing you the absolute best with surgery preparation, surgery, recovery, insurance .. everything.. can't even think of enough things to cover bases though cover bases and then some positive...
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Forum: iSpine
11-07-2014, 07:30 PM
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Replies: 30
Views: 12,551
loss of forum member
Don't know who it is however sorry to lose a contributing member. Hope everything is going well for this person.
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Forum: iSpine
10-21-2014, 03:33 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 5,027
re symptoms
Sounds a bit like what happened when my L4 bulged (had previously had an L5S1 discectomy and at first was worried that rebulged and had more probs but turned out to be L4. Not to be outdone L5S1 at...
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Forum: iSpine
10-15-2014, 12:38 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 6,295
re reply
Hi T1
Good to read you got a reply back with direct answers to your questions. That must have made you feel so much better! Hope it helps you in your decision making as well. As always wishing...
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Forum: iSpine
10-14-2014, 03:26 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 3,767
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Forum: iSpine
10-14-2014, 10:10 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 5,262
re this forum
This is the only spine forum I currently post as I don't really have anything to offer much with regard to talking about surgeries beyond discectomies and mine were a number of years ago. I was...
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Forum: iSpine
10-13-2014, 11:51 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 5,262
re Mark
Vicki,
T1 replied that she had made contact with Mark and spoke to him. I agree about how helpful he is ~
There was another spine forum that I got the boot from that was very active although I...
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Forum: iSpine
10-13-2014, 04:09 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 6,295
supposedly
L5S1 if fused or not doesn't have much motion anyway.. so this is the level that I believe if fused would be Ok and ADR above it might work IF you are a candidate... that's sort of what I was facing...
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Forum: iSpine
10-12-2014, 05:42 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 6,295
re Bertagnoli's reply and non reply
Back when I was considering ADR at 2-3 levels I got the best responses from Bertagnoli's and assistant. I don't think I would really care about his investment in Pro disc as so many surgeons here...
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Forum: iSpine
10-12-2014, 03:58 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 3,808
bone on bone
I was told that pretty much along the way ( a number of years) before my L5S1 area auto fused. In the MRI reports it always mentioned disc desiccation and the degree thereof .. anyway I didn't...
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Forum: iSpine
10-11-2014, 08:11 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 3,939
seizures post ADR
I was thinking the onset was more related to some type of trauma or insult to the brain during the surgery even like a very abbreviated lack of oxygen or something.
Grand mal seizures are...
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