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Hello all. New to the forum.
I've read alot through the different posts and have found quite a bit of helpful info on this malady. It seems a very helpful and supportive group you have here, awesome.
Anyway... I was diagnosed with scoliosis at the age of 11 and fitted with a brace which I never wore. At the age of about 18 my curve (thoracic) was at 25*. Around that period of time I had seen the same DR a few different times because of the extreme uncomfortable feeling I always had.
I didn't look too closely at the medical records back then but i rescently noticed, reading back though them, that i was diagnosed at 25* then a short time after at 35*, and then a short time after that back at 25*. I can only assume that the Dr I was seeing (I had seen the same DR throughout my whole life untill rescently) measured incorrectly at the 35*.
Fast forward about 12 years, lot's of disscomfort and pain later, I schedule an appointment to consult with an orthopedic spine specialist at my local hospital and ended up seeing the same DR I had seen all of those years ago.
He assures me after x-rays that my curve still holds at 25* and we have a thorough discussion about it all. Single throracic curve with apex at t3 or t4 (can't remember right off). I ask why, if everything has remained the same since all those years ago, has my deformity gotten notably worse and everything feels so much worse. He tells me maybe from rotation and that there's not really a way to measure that. I ask about surgery for correction and he says no way. End of discussion.
Fast forward another three years and we are here today.
I decide that maybe it's time to consult another specialist. He measures me with a 29* thoracic curve and a secondary (this is new) lumbar curve of
11*. So, within the last 3 years this new curve has just popped up? Or did the first DR miss something all that time?
This Dr. doesn't hesitate a moment to say that surgery is the only answer and we can do it as early as this August. He wants to get a current MRI to make sure some nerves arent compressed, so I'm still waiting to hear back on when the MRI is scheduled. That's been a week ago today.
Sorry this has been so long-winded but I just wanted to get this off of my chest.
Does anyone else think it is strange that for all of these years one DR would be so averted to surgery and then this one immediately opts for it right away?
I've read alot through the different posts and have found quite a bit of helpful info on this malady. It seems a very helpful and supportive group you have here, awesome.
Anyway... I was diagnosed with scoliosis at the age of 11 and fitted with a brace which I never wore. At the age of about 18 my curve (thoracic) was at 25*. Around that period of time I had seen the same DR a few different times because of the extreme uncomfortable feeling I always had.
I didn't look too closely at the medical records back then but i rescently noticed, reading back though them, that i was diagnosed at 25* then a short time after at 35*, and then a short time after that back at 25*. I can only assume that the Dr I was seeing (I had seen the same DR throughout my whole life untill rescently) measured incorrectly at the 35*.
Fast forward about 12 years, lot's of disscomfort and pain later, I schedule an appointment to consult with an orthopedic spine specialist at my local hospital and ended up seeing the same DR I had seen all of those years ago.
He assures me after x-rays that my curve still holds at 25* and we have a thorough discussion about it all. Single throracic curve with apex at t3 or t4 (can't remember right off). I ask why, if everything has remained the same since all those years ago, has my deformity gotten notably worse and everything feels so much worse. He tells me maybe from rotation and that there's not really a way to measure that. I ask about surgery for correction and he says no way. End of discussion.
Fast forward another three years and we are here today.
I decide that maybe it's time to consult another specialist. He measures me with a 29* thoracic curve and a secondary (this is new) lumbar curve of
11*. So, within the last 3 years this new curve has just popped up? Or did the first DR miss something all that time?
This Dr. doesn't hesitate a moment to say that surgery is the only answer and we can do it as early as this August. He wants to get a current MRI to make sure some nerves arent compressed, so I'm still waiting to hear back on when the MRI is scheduled. That's been a week ago today.
Sorry this has been so long-winded but I just wanted to get this off of my chest.
Does anyone else think it is strange that for all of these years one DR would be so averted to surgery and then this one immediately opts for it right away?
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