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beachgirl01
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Hey all,
Just wanted to update you all on my appt today with my surgeon. You all know my situation, "unique situation", if you can call it that.
Anyhow after my last spine surgery I found out that the disc raplacement failed just like the 1st surgery. Not in the same way. The first one, the screws broke and the second one the disc that was replaced with cadaver bone also broke. The break was slight but it was enough to be a concern. After having an x-ray today I took it with me to my appt. My surgeon did a routine exam and then looked at the x-rays. It showed a significant change in the disc. The plate actually is almost gone! My body has absored pretty much all that bone. There is a little piece left. It's the piece that has slide forward and broke away from the rest of it at the beginning. The rest of it is just gone. My surgeon figures that it is because there was instability in the spine and as things rubbed against other things and what not, it caused the body to sort of eat away at that bone.
The situation I am in now is that I require another surgery. It will be to insert another plate with cadaver bone and BMP plus other fusing components. He will also insert a screw and whatever else he feels necesary. He will also fix anything that does not look right and or neeRAB tweeking.
Anyhow I just thought I would update those of you that I've been chatting with lately. Thanks again for all the help lately! Take care all. I wil lmost definitly be on the boarRAB in the next while. My surgery probably won't be for a while because I have some other things I am waiting on and I have to wait for a consult with a general surgeon. Talk to you soon.
Beachgirl
Just wanted to update you all on my appt today with my surgeon. You all know my situation, "unique situation", if you can call it that.
Anyhow after my last spine surgery I found out that the disc raplacement failed just like the 1st surgery. Not in the same way. The first one, the screws broke and the second one the disc that was replaced with cadaver bone also broke. The break was slight but it was enough to be a concern. After having an x-ray today I took it with me to my appt. My surgeon did a routine exam and then looked at the x-rays. It showed a significant change in the disc. The plate actually is almost gone! My body has absored pretty much all that bone. There is a little piece left. It's the piece that has slide forward and broke away from the rest of it at the beginning. The rest of it is just gone. My surgeon figures that it is because there was instability in the spine and as things rubbed against other things and what not, it caused the body to sort of eat away at that bone.
The situation I am in now is that I require another surgery. It will be to insert another plate with cadaver bone and BMP plus other fusing components. He will also insert a screw and whatever else he feels necesary. He will also fix anything that does not look right and or neeRAB tweeking.
Anyhow I just thought I would update those of you that I've been chatting with lately. Thanks again for all the help lately! Take care all. I wil lmost definitly be on the boarRAB in the next while. My surgery probably won't be for a while because I have some other things I am waiting on and I have to wait for a consult with a general surgeon. Talk to you soon.
Beachgirl