I have two questions...
1) I have heard that once my daughter has spinal fusion, she won't be able to have an epidural during child birth. She is going to be fused down to about L2. Is that true or does it depend on how low you are fused?
2) My daughter has a Grade I spondylolisthesis of L5. She has no pain or any other sypmtoms. Her doctor doesn't want to fuse her that low, because he is trying to retain as much mobility as possible, but he says he will have to watch it closely. My questions is should I ask him to fuse her that low now and lose some mobility/flexibility or watch and hope the fusion doesn't put too much stress on L5 and possibly need further fusion later.
Thank you.
Mary Lou
1) I have heard that once my daughter has spinal fusion, she won't be able to have an epidural during child birth. She is going to be fused down to about L2. Is that true or does it depend on how low you are fused?
2) My daughter has a Grade I spondylolisthesis of L5. She has no pain or any other sypmtoms. Her doctor doesn't want to fuse her that low, because he is trying to retain as much mobility as possible, but he says he will have to watch it closely. My questions is should I ask him to fuse her that low now and lose some mobility/flexibility or watch and hope the fusion doesn't put too much stress on L5 and possibly need further fusion later.
Thank you.
Mary Lou
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