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    Please could everyone put in their signatures the levels they are fused, if they've already been fused, their curve sizes and their age?

    Sometimes I read a response from someone and think it might apply to my own experience, only to find out later that they are only fused to L1 or something. Or that they are twenty years younger than I. Or they had much smaller curves than I.

    JMHO, but I think it would help all of us if we would do this...thanks for listening.

    6 1/2 months and counting down....
    Stephanie, age 56
    Diagnosed age 8
    Milwaukee brace 9 years, no further treatment, symptom free and clueless until my 40s that curves could progress.
    Thoracolumbar curve 39 degrees at age 17
    Now somewhere around 58 degrees thoracic, 70 degrees thoracolumbar
    Surgeon Dr. Michael S. O'Brien, Baylor's Southwest Scoliosis Center, Dallas TX
    Bilateral laminectomies at L3 to L4, L4 to L5 and L5 to S1 on April 4, 2012
    Foramenotomies L3 through S1 in August 2014

  • #2
    Stephanie,
    I think that's a great request. I think we should all get our surgeon's okay to get back into certain activities, such as, using the elliptical, doing Yoga or Pilates, ect., but it would help us understand why some are permitted much earlier in their recovery due to age and the length of the fusion.
    Karen

    Surgery-Jan. 5, 2011-Dr. Lenke
    Fusion T-4-sacrum-2 cages/5 osteotomies
    70 degree thoracolumbar corrected to 25
    Rib Hump-GONE!
    Age-60 at the time of surgery
    Now 66
    Avid Golfer & Tap Dancer
    Retired Kdgn. Teacher

    See photobucket link for:
    Video of my 1st Day of Golf Post-Op-3/02/12-Bradenton, FL
    Before and After Picture of back 1/7/11
    tap dancing picture at 10 mos. post op 11/11/11-I'm the one on the right.
    http://s1119.photobucket.com/albums/k630/pottoff2/

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    • #3
      Excellent idea. It saves the work of having to look back through threads and posts to get the facts.
      Ed
      49 yr old male, now 63, the new 64...
      Pre surgery curves T70,L70
      ALIF/PSA T2-Pelvis 01/29/08, 01/31/08 7" pelvic anchors BMP
      Dr Brett Menmuir St Marys Hospital Reno,Nevada

      Bending and twisting pics after full fusion
      http://www.scoliosis.org/forum/showt...on.&highlight=

      My x-rays
      http://www.scoliosis.org/forum/attac...2&d=1228779214

      http://www.scoliosis.org/forum/attac...3&d=1228779258

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      • #4
        Excellent idea!
        Surgery March 3, 2009 at almost 58, now 63.
        Dr. Askin, Brisbane, Australia
        T4-Pelvis, Posterior only
        Osteotomies and Laminectomies
        Was 68 degrees, now 22 and pain free

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        • #5
          Ed, I'll be 53 and just three months shy of 54 when my surgery gets done, so I doubt if 54 will feel like the new 37, but I'll be thrilled if 55 can feel like the new 38!

          Thanks to everyone who is adjusting their signatures. It really does help so much, especially for those of us losing all our lumbar flexibility.
          Stephanie, age 56
          Diagnosed age 8
          Milwaukee brace 9 years, no further treatment, symptom free and clueless until my 40s that curves could progress.
          Thoracolumbar curve 39 degrees at age 17
          Now somewhere around 58 degrees thoracic, 70 degrees thoracolumbar
          Surgeon Dr. Michael S. O'Brien, Baylor's Southwest Scoliosis Center, Dallas TX
          Bilateral laminectomies at L3 to L4, L4 to L5 and L5 to S1 on April 4, 2012
          Foramenotomies L3 through S1 in August 2014

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          • #6
            Originally posted by titaniumed View Post
            Excellent idea. It saves the work of having to look back through threads and posts to get the facts.
            Ed
            When is your birthday ?
            Melissa

            Fused from C2 - sacrum 7/2011

            April 21, 2020- another broken rod surgery

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            • #7
              Stephanie
              Its not that bad. It’s a big improvement over the major pain that I endured before being fused. I think about all the years that I was in pain. Was it really worth waiting? Now, I don’t think so. It takes a while before you can judge your outcome, I would say at least 1 year at our age.....I have no lower pain at all, from 10 level pain to zero. I never thought that I would have come out so well. Once the nerves healed, I was in heaven.


              Melissa
              I will be 53 on Dec 11th.
              Ed
              49 yr old male, now 63, the new 64...
              Pre surgery curves T70,L70
              ALIF/PSA T2-Pelvis 01/29/08, 01/31/08 7" pelvic anchors BMP
              Dr Brett Menmuir St Marys Hospital Reno,Nevada

              Bending and twisting pics after full fusion
              http://www.scoliosis.org/forum/showt...on.&highlight=

              My x-rays
              http://www.scoliosis.org/forum/attac...2&d=1228779214

              http://www.scoliosis.org/forum/attac...3&d=1228779258

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              • #8
                Originally posted by titaniumed View Post


                Melissa
                I will be 53 on Dec 11th.
                Ed
                Thanks Ed,I turned 52 on June 3
                Melissa

                Fused from C2 - sacrum 7/2011

                April 21, 2020- another broken rod surgery

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