Hey everyone...
my name is Joe and I'm 18 years old from good ole' Long Island New York. Finding this site was like a Godsend to me...I have no one to talk to about my condition and I think this forum will give me some great feedback as to what I should do about it...
I have scoliosis, and the last time I went to my doctor which was nearly a year ago. My curve was between 45 and 47 degrees, apparently not severe enough to have a mandatory operation. I have some body disfigurement...my left hip juts out alot more than my right one, and is higher up. Also, I have a large hump on the right side of my back due to the spinal curvature. I have lower and upper back pain when laying down or standing in the same position for more than a few minutes as well as frontal chest pains.
The physical deformities and pain have really pushed me towards wanting the surgery, but my parents didn't agree and held me back from ever having the surgery. I planned to have it over the summer of my junior year in high school when I was about 17, but now that I haven't, I don't see a time in my life when I really can have it. I would have to wait until I am 22, and even then I would have to make sure I was better in two months to start graduate school right after college, seeing as how I can't afford to start paying back student loans.
Money is also an issue. My parents are worried that the insurance wont cover the cost of the surgery.
Basically, right now, I'm just terrified that I should be doing something for my back that I'm not doing. I excercise when I can and I've been braced for two years when I was 14-15, but it did nothing. Now I hear about people having neck and back pains post-op and that just scares me even more. I just don't know what to do, heh...
does anyone have any suggestions? Or advice? Or anything really...
Thanks.
P.S. - to those of you who are parents who are on this site to learn more about scoliosis for their children...bless your souls. You are doing a wonderful thing. I wish my parents would have looked into my condition more...maybe I wouldn't be in the situation that I am if they had done that...
my name is Joe and I'm 18 years old from good ole' Long Island New York. Finding this site was like a Godsend to me...I have no one to talk to about my condition and I think this forum will give me some great feedback as to what I should do about it...
I have scoliosis, and the last time I went to my doctor which was nearly a year ago. My curve was between 45 and 47 degrees, apparently not severe enough to have a mandatory operation. I have some body disfigurement...my left hip juts out alot more than my right one, and is higher up. Also, I have a large hump on the right side of my back due to the spinal curvature. I have lower and upper back pain when laying down or standing in the same position for more than a few minutes as well as frontal chest pains.
The physical deformities and pain have really pushed me towards wanting the surgery, but my parents didn't agree and held me back from ever having the surgery. I planned to have it over the summer of my junior year in high school when I was about 17, but now that I haven't, I don't see a time in my life when I really can have it. I would have to wait until I am 22, and even then I would have to make sure I was better in two months to start graduate school right after college, seeing as how I can't afford to start paying back student loans.
Money is also an issue. My parents are worried that the insurance wont cover the cost of the surgery.
Basically, right now, I'm just terrified that I should be doing something for my back that I'm not doing. I excercise when I can and I've been braced for two years when I was 14-15, but it did nothing. Now I hear about people having neck and back pains post-op and that just scares me even more. I just don't know what to do, heh...
does anyone have any suggestions? Or advice? Or anything really...
Thanks.
P.S. - to those of you who are parents who are on this site to learn more about scoliosis for their children...bless your souls. You are doing a wonderful thing. I wish my parents would have looked into my condition more...maybe I wouldn't be in the situation that I am if they had done that...
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