Hi Everyone,
This has been torture with the forum down. Went to see surgeon Friday bringing in MRI films and he had the xrays his office took.
I guess where my spine is the most curved on top, several of the bones have fused.
Carrying on the pledge to do no harm, he thinks he can only correct up to 50 percent because he does not feel it is right to break the bones...and potentially cause some problems with nerves or spinal cord.
I asked about rib hump, would that go away. He tried pressing down on them and said they were misshaped and the way to lose the hump would be to cut them and he feels that could lead to problems breathing and would be much more painful for me.
I am disappointed but realize his goal is to try to straighten as much as possible and stop the curve and rotation from getting worse. So many of you don't have the rib hump anymore.
Is my surgeon being a lot more conservative than other surgeons?
I am in a quandary.
This has been torture with the forum down. Went to see surgeon Friday bringing in MRI films and he had the xrays his office took.
I guess where my spine is the most curved on top, several of the bones have fused.
Carrying on the pledge to do no harm, he thinks he can only correct up to 50 percent because he does not feel it is right to break the bones...and potentially cause some problems with nerves or spinal cord.
I asked about rib hump, would that go away. He tried pressing down on them and said they were misshaped and the way to lose the hump would be to cut them and he feels that could lead to problems breathing and would be much more painful for me.
I am disappointed but realize his goal is to try to straighten as much as possible and stop the curve and rotation from getting worse. So many of you don't have the rib hump anymore.
Is my surgeon being a lot more conservative than other surgeons?
I am in a quandary.
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