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  • #76
    Ed, I agree with Peggy, your posts are so informative. I will also be rereading your posts when it is my time for surgery.
    And thanks for the Alfred Hitchcock link, I love his movies.
    Marianne
    rotoscoliosis, subluxation and spinal stenosis
    Surgery April 15, 2015 at age 67
    T11-L5
    Decompression with multiple discectomies
    Concord cages @ L2-3, L3-4, L4-5
    Osteotomies and local bone grafting
    Revision Feb.22, 2018
    Replaced rods
    Took out L5 disk to free up nerves
    Used BPM to help with fusing
    Fused T10-S1 with screws in pelvis

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    • #77
      Post op question

      Hi all,

      At what point, if ever, do you stop feeling the hardware? It's freaking me out a bit plus feeling it makes me fear that I've broken something. How likely/common is it to break hardware?

      Thx!

      Risė

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      • #78
        Hi Rise...

        Broken implants aren't terribly uncommon, but a lot more people THINK they've broken implants than have actually broken them. Most people whose rods break seem to say that they could both hear and feel when a rod actually broke.

        --Linda
        Never argue with an idiot. They always drag you down to their level, and then they beat you with experience. --Twain
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        Surgery 2/10/93 A/P fusion T4-L3
        Surgery 1/20/11 A/P fusion L2-sacrum w/pelvic fixation

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        • #79
          RE: laser

          Irina....i needed TWO tx and done...at a dermatologist's office...
          any area that got two tx was free of hair for me...
          so i most definitely did NOT need 5 or 6 tx...
          and the two tx were affordable for me...
          now home laser tx are something else...i think the home laser
          gizmo is alot weaker than what they use in doctor's office.

          jess...and Sparky

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          • #80
            Wow, Jess, you're lucky - two treatments and done. I was nowhere close to being done after two treatments and noticed a result after fifth session. We are all different...
            I am stronger than scoliosis, and won't let it rule my life!
            45 years old - diagnosed at age 7
            A/P surgery on March 5/7, 2013 - UCSF

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            • #81
              yes...everyone is different...
              i don't know if i would go 5 or 6 times...it was very
              expensive at dermatologist's office...a doctor did it...
              and i do not know if it is the same price everywhere...
              but i was glad 2 treatments were enough at the prices
              they charged!

              jess...and Sparky

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