Hey all,
I haven't posted in a while. Just had my visit with my ortho. Updated my signature to reflect the new measurements from today.
From the first visit with my doctor in 2005, I think it's safe to say there is defintely some progression, even with the +/- 5 degrees discrepancy. He said he wouldn't yet consider any surgical correction until I hit 60 degrees, which is 3 degrees away. Have a feeling by my next visit in 2 years, I'll hit that number.
Regardless of the number I'll put it off as long as possible or rather, longer than I should. I have other issues that require frequent MRIs and basically the area of the most concern is exactly where the most amount of instrumentation would need to be if I were to get fused. While new surgical metals usually are not ferrous, there are MRI machines/techs that can get around the artifact caused by the instrumentation, ect... Don't really want even small amount of artifact distorting my scans and making it difficult to tract any changes. It'd be pointless to have a nice straight spine if I end up kicking the bucket from my tumor turning malignant.
Now that I've put that in writing it's quite concerning, but I'll cross that bridge when I'm on it.
Hope everyone is doing well.
I haven't posted in a while. Just had my visit with my ortho. Updated my signature to reflect the new measurements from today.
From the first visit with my doctor in 2005, I think it's safe to say there is defintely some progression, even with the +/- 5 degrees discrepancy. He said he wouldn't yet consider any surgical correction until I hit 60 degrees, which is 3 degrees away. Have a feeling by my next visit in 2 years, I'll hit that number.
Regardless of the number I'll put it off as long as possible or rather, longer than I should. I have other issues that require frequent MRIs and basically the area of the most concern is exactly where the most amount of instrumentation would need to be if I were to get fused. While new surgical metals usually are not ferrous, there are MRI machines/techs that can get around the artifact caused by the instrumentation, ect... Don't really want even small amount of artifact distorting my scans and making it difficult to tract any changes. It'd be pointless to have a nice straight spine if I end up kicking the bucket from my tumor turning malignant.
Now that I've put that in writing it's quite concerning, but I'll cross that bridge when I'm on it.
Hope everyone is doing well.
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