I'm 29 years old, but according to the doc, my spine looks like that of a much older person because of powerlifting. How old are you? And if you are making ANY progress, even slowly, I would push the fusion off. You can always get it later, but you can't take it back.
Yeah, everything is on hold, basically, until I am done with this IV. On the bright side, my back is actually starting to feel better, a little bit at least
Well I hope it gets better bro. I'm finally home, with a Picc line (direct line to my chest from my arm) and I have to give myself an IV twice a day for 8 weeks
Yep, but 99.9 percent of the time they can see the infection....mine was just hiding behind the spine in some nerve bundles, so they couldn't see it until it had grown to be a goofball size, and literally way worse pain than before surgery
I hope not too man.... A fusion is no good. I'm still in the hospital (since Monday) and will likely be until next week....that makes me nervous about it being wet and inflamed..... So was mine
Same here man, the abcess caused all sorts of issues and they had to cut out a lot of tissue. And they have me running crazy antibiotics that keep irritating my veins..... I hope you feel better brother
Nope didn't reinjure the disc at all, they just had to cut out the infection..... And then keep me hospitalized for 4-5 days while they culture the infection :(
So I thought I would let you know boss, they found a pretty big infection and abcess in the disc and bone of the spine. Having emergency surgery in 5 hours.... 6am my time. Pretty serious, wish me luck bro
Yeah the problem with the epidural is that sometimes they don't work.... Sometimes they work like a charm. Yeah man I got something else nasty going on, we just need to find out what
Don't feel bad brother, I got up today and had INTENSE pain for like 10 seconds and woke up on the floor like 10 minutes later, with the fan I landed on smashed, so I'm at the doctor for the 273636 time :( these back surgeries man
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