I have been noticing more and more tightness around my shoulder blades and rib like pain that is centered in the middle of my back but other than that it’s mainly my sciatica and the SI joint.
I feel like even though a larger fusion would be limiting in flexibility I would learn to over come especially with so much of my life yet, I just can’t keep doing this daily pain while at the same time knowing the problem will continue?
How would SI fixation be more limiting in terms of flexibility compared to the lumbar fusion? From what I understand there isn’t much movement of the SI joint in daily life and it is meant to stay pretty stable in and of itself.
When my surgeon said that if we did the smaller fusion I would be back in 5-10 years to do the rest, that didn’t seem like a good rate of return for how risky the fusion is in and of itself. I’m normally the type of person where if i know I’m going to be in pain and it’s going to suck, I don’t want to have to do it over again. Plus I can’t imagine that leaving unfused vertebrae in between two separate fusions is a good idea...right?
I feel like even though a larger fusion would be limiting in flexibility I would learn to over come especially with so much of my life yet, I just can’t keep doing this daily pain while at the same time knowing the problem will continue?
How would SI fixation be more limiting in terms of flexibility compared to the lumbar fusion? From what I understand there isn’t much movement of the SI joint in daily life and it is meant to stay pretty stable in and of itself.
When my surgeon said that if we did the smaller fusion I would be back in 5-10 years to do the rest, that didn’t seem like a good rate of return for how risky the fusion is in and of itself. I’m normally the type of person where if i know I’m going to be in pain and it’s going to suck, I don’t want to have to do it over again. Plus I can’t imagine that leaving unfused vertebrae in between two separate fusions is a good idea...right?
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