Hi everyone. I just had a pre-op visit today with my ortho and had a question. When I saw him a few months ago and first started talking about surgery he told me he could do posterior only surgery - a couple hours - and I talked myself into it thinking at least that would be better than A/P and having the ribs removed and all.
So I go today and he looked at the xrays again and changed the story. He now says he would do A/P with one rib removal. I was completely shocked and started crying....surgery time went from 5 hours to 10 hours now and he also said that once he got started he may decide that it was too much for one day and would do the anterior one day and the posterior a week later with me being in the hospital for about 2 weeks. I won't know until I wake up what was done. He is saying he feels he could get a better correction doing the a/p instead of just the posterior.
Does that sound right? I read of a lot of people who have it done all on one day or 1-2 days later. And does anyone know WHY they do the ant. and post.? I would be happy with even a 20 - 30 degree curve left over...seriously, I don't care if I'm completely straight if it means having less time on the operating table.
I have an MRI in 2 weeks and a follow up w/surgeon beginning of October. His office said they could probably schedule me for end of Oct but I am in so much doubt now. I convinced myself that the 1st senerio would be OK but now I'm faced with a totally different senerio.
I have had a 2nd and 3rd opinion over the years and they all say surgery but each surgeon is different as to HOW they would do it...and I expect that is normal. Dazed and Confused now.
So I go today and he looked at the xrays again and changed the story. He now says he would do A/P with one rib removal. I was completely shocked and started crying....surgery time went from 5 hours to 10 hours now and he also said that once he got started he may decide that it was too much for one day and would do the anterior one day and the posterior a week later with me being in the hospital for about 2 weeks. I won't know until I wake up what was done. He is saying he feels he could get a better correction doing the a/p instead of just the posterior.
Does that sound right? I read of a lot of people who have it done all on one day or 1-2 days later. And does anyone know WHY they do the ant. and post.? I would be happy with even a 20 - 30 degree curve left over...seriously, I don't care if I'm completely straight if it means having less time on the operating table.
I have an MRI in 2 weeks and a follow up w/surgeon beginning of October. His office said they could probably schedule me for end of Oct but I am in so much doubt now. I convinced myself that the 1st senerio would be OK but now I'm faced with a totally different senerio.
I have had a 2nd and 3rd opinion over the years and they all say surgery but each surgeon is different as to HOW they would do it...and I expect that is normal. Dazed and Confused now.
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