Hello, my name is ivan, i was diagnosed with lumbar scoliosis at around the age of 12 or so. At the age of 7 we kept going to the dr. and hospital for x rays b/c one of my ribs was sticking out like if it were broken but they never knew what it was from. Time went by and my parents noticed that i was a bit out of shape, my pants didnt fit the right way and shirts and so on. And thats when the drs were like "oh its scoliosis" During my whole childhood i was always self concious about my self and still am, my pelvis sticks out a bit from one side i have a minor ball in my lower back and of course my rib cage seems to be pushed to the right a bit, its not that noticible with clothes on but im embarased to take off my shirt, and the worst part of it all now my back hurts for nothing just walking a bit standing, sitting, the pain is bad but not that bad yet... but it is getting worse, I always have to find ways of standing or sitting so the pain could gradually go down and the funny thing is that if i run it takes longer for my back to hurt.
Reading all these forums it seems that just lumbar scoliosis is rare and also scoliosis in males, it seems that females are more affected. I am considering a surgery, but then i read about all the things that may go wrong, but then i know that with a spine fusion my life could be better in many ways specially apperance, is there any one who has just had lumbar fusion surgery, and if so how is ur mobility can u bend down since its in the lumbar area, did ur body shape grow, is the rod on the whole spine, and has any one hear of the WEDGE OSTEOTOMY in which they take a part of ur bone and implant it on ur spine or so and then they leave the rods in ur back for like 13weeks then they remove them.
Sorry the letter is so loong but if anyone can help me out it would be great.
Thanks
Reading all these forums it seems that just lumbar scoliosis is rare and also scoliosis in males, it seems that females are more affected. I am considering a surgery, but then i read about all the things that may go wrong, but then i know that with a spine fusion my life could be better in many ways specially apperance, is there any one who has just had lumbar fusion surgery, and if so how is ur mobility can u bend down since its in the lumbar area, did ur body shape grow, is the rod on the whole spine, and has any one hear of the WEDGE OSTEOTOMY in which they take a part of ur bone and implant it on ur spine or so and then they leave the rods in ur back for like 13weeks then they remove them.
Sorry the letter is so loong but if anyone can help me out it would be great.
Thanks
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