123dietpepper--questions for you

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I noticed that you have had a lurabar revision. Could you please tell me what that involved surgery wise? What do they take out and replace? What was the recovery like? Was the pain and recovery similar to the fusion itself or was everything worse? I am facing this surgery soon---the Insurance carrier finally approved the surgery. Thanks for your help!

If anyone else has been thru this, I appreciate any and all input regarding this!!

Pat
 
Hi Pat,

Sorry I just saw your post; i am posting alot on the pain mgmt board these days.

I did have a revision surgery and to be honest it was about the same as my fusion recovery wise. I had zero fusion, so when they went in they worked on the decompressing the L5/s1 nerve root, added bmp to L5/S1, and removed the right side of hardware leaving in the left side of the hardware. My right side hardware was laying such that it was causing problem with the L5/S1 nerve root. They also did Laminectomies on L4/L3.

I was in surgery I believe 5/6 hours, had the long incision in the back with those lovely staples. Woke up with a pain pump, that lovely catheter, and 3 drains in my back. They removed the drains within 24 hours and at 72 hours they took away the pain pump and switched me over to oxycontin and percocet. I was released at 5/6 days. They sent PT to my house the first week after release.

Hope this helps - if you want any specific information please feel free to ask. I will answer any and all questions; I am not really shy. :D

Can you give me a quick rundown of your surgeries along with the timelines? I don't remeraber the specifics.
 
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