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    Hello everyone!

    Starting two years ago in the fall (while I was living in Nova Scotia), I started having INCREDIBLE pain with my back, that felt like it started right in the center of my chest, and spread to my ribs and around to my back. It was so intense that I would completely shut down. It seemed no meds helped, tylenol, advil, robaxacet, nothing! It started happening once a month, then eventually was happening once a week, and would last all night, sometimes up to six hours. It seemed the only thing that helped was Aleve, some painkiller my roomate from the US had that I didnt know about. When I came home at Christmas my mum booked me in with the adult scoliosis specialist, who did my surgery but I had never actually met (I always dealt with the pediatric specialist). Anyways he diagnosed it as arthritis? At 22! He gave me voltaren rapide as pain medication. He said this type of arthritis is common with scoliosis surgery patients, because the joints in your spine are fused, and don't get as much lubrication, or moisture so they get dry and inflamed?
    Turns out Aleve is an arthritis pain medication, no wonder it was the only thing that helped.

    Since moving back to Alberta (Canada for those who don't know where that is, in the prairies) I haven't had as much a problem. But every once in a while (maybe once a month) I get it, and I have to take my voltaren, which usually makes me sleepy & drowsy... and lose a whole day.

    Anyways just curious if there is anyone else out there that has experienced a similar situation. I look forward to hearing from you!

    Take care!


    lisanicole
    23/F/Canada
    lisanicolegrace
    29/F/Canada
    Surgery - 11/10/2000
    80° curve to 19° post op.
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    Hi Lisanicole,

    I'm Canadian too

    Come to think of it I do have pain like you describe and it would be normal for fused vertebreas to feel that way, and many doctors and alternative treatments specialists did tell me fusing a spine can do this, and that was one of the reasons they weren't rushing me or other patients for surgery, unless the curve was pretty bad.

    Thanks for sharing about the meds.
    35 y/old female from Montreal, Canada
    Diagnosed with scoliosis(double major) at age 12, wore Boston brace 4 years at least 23 hours a day-curve progressed
    Surgery age 26 for 60 degree curve in Oct. 1997 by Dr.Max Aebi-fused T5 to L2
    Surgery age 28 for a hook removal in Feb. 1999 by Dr.Max Aebi-pain free for 5 years
    Surgery age 34 in Dec.2005 for broken rod replacement, bigger screws and crosslinks added and pseudarthrosis(non union) by Dr. Jean Ouellet

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