18 months post op fusion

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123 Dr Pepper............ I think we talked about a year ago. I used to post and was getting discouraged around my 6 to 8 month period. I just didn't know how much worse it was going to get.

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I wondered what had happened because your name is so identifiable and I remerabered what terrible times you were having. Its hard to explain to people why I'm holding back on surgery. They just think "Go in and get it fixed" Well, thats what I was supposed to be doing the first time. If I go in again, and it doesn't go well again, I could be in a wheelchair. So maybe I should stay where I'm at. I can do the walking in the house, but not much at all if we try to go anywhere. I will get the MRI and the discogram. I could possibly even go for one more opinion after that. You may have been responding to the girl that posted after me, but I guess we're fairly similar with our stories. So happy to hear you're doing better.
 
Hi Queenie,
Ive not been on here for a while, and just posted a a thread about my revision surgery and then I found yours.
Im so very sorry to hear that you are in this difficult tough situation, I know how hard it is to have your hopes shattered when surgery fails and you thought it was going to improve your quality of life, but it makes things worse.
I had a fusion and disc replacement, and my fusion has failed, its just been found out that I also have worn facets at my adr site, causing a great deal of pain. Like you, ive had every 'block' going, and my quality of life is so much worse since my last surgery. I cant work, I cant walk far, but I try.
My work is discussing ill health retirement, and im only 33, I miss my old life, my job, and the part of me that I no longer have so much.
Im having a plif in April to stabilise my fusion, but a solution to the adr problem has not yet been looked into.
Im thinking of you so very much, and sending you my very warmest wishes, and a cyber hug, I know how disheartening it is to be in the position you are in, and how tough it can be getting through each day with the pain and limitations, it takes alot of strength.
Thinking of you
sarah x
 
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