Back surrgery agian after 6 months??

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Oh thank-you so much Hugg and brendaks for answering. Hugg did the fusion work?
brendaks I am so terrified of another surgery. I got the mrsa staph infection 2 months after surgery and have gone through MAJOR health issues since then. My blood work is still all messed up, no immune system, anemic.ugghhh
 
sophie56,

I completely understand. I got a massive hematoma with infection after my first surgery and ended up in the hospital for a week with another surgery to clean it out. When doctors give me the detail of what rare things can go wrong, I'm all ears! I am also facing another surgery (possibly a fusion) to fix my problem and I am so concerned about what will go wrong as it always seems to happen to me.
 
I had L5 S1 surgery in Oct.08. I now have severe pain in lower left hip and thigh.. Doctor is sending me for an MRI. I took a pretty hard fall 6 wks after my surgery . I called the doctor and nurse said it should be fine. Is it possible I could need surgery again? Anyone experience anything similair?
Thanks,
Sophie 56
 
What type of surgery did you have? You could have reherniated with the fall if a microD or discectomy. I reherniated, and had severe pain in but, hips, and both legs, they figured I reherniated immediately, by 4 months after surgery as I was not recovering and they did another mri and saw a HUGE rehernation. I was in ALOT of pain. Im doing MUCH better now with the fusion.
I had to get a one level fusion the 2nd time around.

Good luck-
 
Same here! Please keep in touch. Good luck and when do you see your back doctor to find out? I am 52 so that worries me to ...not a spring chicken anymore and so sick of this.
Are you in pain all the time? I have been. I walk with a limp and work. It is torture and such a change from even a year ago. I feel doomed.
Sophie 56
 
I'm having a discogram tomorrow morning, so hopefully that will concur with the upright MRI I recently had. Then I will likely go to a new orthopedic spine surgeon (I don't want to go back to the one who did my original surgery). I am not able to sit at all right now and am not able to work. I am 41 years old and have been sidelined for over a year now. I have never before had any medical problems, so this whole living life as a person with a disability has been a new experience for me. I just can't wait for the day I can drive again and sit again and get my life back, even if I will still be in pain and have some restriction. So you are working right now? How do you do it?
 
I don't know. I had a buldging disc. They took some of the disk out and took out some of the nerve so they no longer pressed together...that's all I know. Does that sound anything like it.
Thank-you so much,
Sophie56
 
Sophie, I went through the same exact thing. I had a discectomy on L4/L5 in Septeraber 2005. In February 2006, I had a fusion done of L4/L5 and L5/S1.

I had relief after the first surgery for about 5 weeks. I took a lil turable down some stairs. The doc's office said it should be fine but within 2 weeks, they ordered an MRI and there was a big herniation of the remaining disc. They don't feel that lil spill down the stairs caused it as much as the disc was just unstable. Who knows :confused:

I hope you find out the cause soon and have some pain relief!!
 
Yes, I teach school and have missed over 40 days this year. I am so worried I am going to lose my job. I have to work. I have 2 kiRAB in college and we just can't do without my salary.
Also, if I do not work until I am 60 I will lose my retirement. It is torture. I am in excruciating pain 24/7. I have not been able to get much pain medicine either and am really suffering.
Sophie 56
 
Basically the same story here. I had laminectomy/discectomy surgery at L4/L5 last August and I could tell the day after surgery I wasn't fixed. The doctors couldn't find any problem other than a small reherniation for the longest time and said that couldn't be causing my continued severe sciatica. However, I just had an upright MRI which shows it is my problem so I will be heading back to a surgeon to get it fixed soon.
 
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