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August 24, 2009 - 10:04pm
Anonymous
Should I do It...is there any sucess?

I haae recently found out I have 2 broken rods in my back, from a spinal fusion in 2004, It has been 5 years, adn they want me to have a nother surgury, and add some screws adn fix the break. I went to a different doctor then the orignal one adn he said I should have it dont rather than leave it aloe, but I dont see or hear of any success stories, most one i read have had 3 or 4 surguries, I really need some input, because i have no where to turn and I have never been to this doctor before so I dont know if I should trust him..

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August 24, 2009 - 10:40pm
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HI miss breece

hi and here is a nice big welcome from the spine people...how are you tonight?...midnite;;;
sorry bout the mechanical problems. but you never said how you felt so tell us about it and lets see what we can figure out....pete

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September 11, 2009 - 10:08pm
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Seems to me that scoliosis

Seems to me that scoliosis surgery has improved in leaps and bounds in recent years. If both your surgical opinions were to have a second surgery, then I would have it. Did they say if you are properly fused and that they would take the hardware out? Because once you're fused, the hardware has no use. Your fused spine is far stronger than the hardware.

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Surgery aged 57 for Scoliosis
Laminectomies, Osteotomies and Fusion T4-pelvis
using autograft, allograft and BMP
March 3, 2009, Brisbane, Australia.
Curve corrected from 68 degrees to 22 and spine de-rotated.

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September 24, 2009 - 9:32am
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dimitri24 (not verified)
I think the operation will

I think the operation will help you. I also had such problem.

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