Compared to most of you I have mild/moderate scoliosis, it's thoracolumbar, 35 degrees. Unchanged in the last 30 years.
In july this year I had an L3/4 fusion and an artificial disc replacement at L4/5
due to degenerative disc disease. The surgery was technically successful.
Problem is, while the disc pain is mostly gone, my scoliosis pain seems a hundred times worse! Every back muscle from neck to buttock is painful. The worst area is the thoracic where I either had no pain before or else maybe it was just overshadowed by the lumbar disc pain.
I've tried trigger point injections which didn't help and go to clinical pilates every week. Massage is too painful to endure , even pushing a finger anywhere on a muscle hurts. Is it possible that this is all from the scoliosis? I suspect that my pain management doc is thinking Fibromyalgia, how can you tell? Is it possible to have the lumbar "fixed" only to have the heightened discs
cause too much strain on the already compromised thoracic area?
Sorry there's a lot of questions here but I'm getting very frustrated here.
In july this year I had an L3/4 fusion and an artificial disc replacement at L4/5
due to degenerative disc disease. The surgery was technically successful.
Problem is, while the disc pain is mostly gone, my scoliosis pain seems a hundred times worse! Every back muscle from neck to buttock is painful. The worst area is the thoracic where I either had no pain before or else maybe it was just overshadowed by the lumbar disc pain.
I've tried trigger point injections which didn't help and go to clinical pilates every week. Massage is too painful to endure , even pushing a finger anywhere on a muscle hurts. Is it possible that this is all from the scoliosis? I suspect that my pain management doc is thinking Fibromyalgia, how can you tell? Is it possible to have the lumbar "fixed" only to have the heightened discs
cause too much strain on the already compromised thoracic area?
Sorry there's a lot of questions here but I'm getting very frustrated here.
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