I am a new forum member and yesterday I posted a question in the wrong place in the middle of a thread for adolescents and predictably did not get much of a response. I am far from adolescent (68) Unfortunately I live near Charleston SC and have been consulting doctors for my back pain who focused on the stenosis I also have and had not recommended surgery.
Recently I saw a scoliosis specialist in Tennessee who does recommend surgery and who recommends a fusion from mid-thoracic to S-1. He acknowledges I will have a very stiff back and the surgery would be long.
.. What is it like to live with such a long fusion?
.. Have others had surgery in late sixties? Was it very difficult? Fraught with complications? Am I too late despite terrible pain?
..I am seeing Dr Lenke July 26. He is supposed to be very good, but I worry about surgery so far from home and the problem of getting there and back. I want to go someplace where the surgery is performed all the time and did not know of nearer more convenient places. Any comments?
Recently I saw a scoliosis specialist in Tennessee who does recommend surgery and who recommends a fusion from mid-thoracic to S-1. He acknowledges I will have a very stiff back and the surgery would be long.
.. What is it like to live with such a long fusion?
.. Have others had surgery in late sixties? Was it very difficult? Fraught with complications? Am I too late despite terrible pain?
..I am seeing Dr Lenke July 26. He is supposed to be very good, but I worry about surgery so far from home and the problem of getting there and back. I want to go someplace where the surgery is performed all the time and did not know of nearer more convenient places. Any comments?
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