I am new to your forum, and cannot believe it has taken me this long to look here for help!
I hope someone out there has experience with the following - either good or bad.
I had a fusion with rods from T10 to L5 five years ago. My recovery was remarkable, I was lucky to have a great surgeon, and lots of support. I went on my way without realizing I could do damage to anything in my back. Now 5 years later the disk at L5 S1 is gone. I am bent forwards at my hips, and listing sideways I suppose because of the angle the vertebrae are resting on each other. I am in varying states of mobility and pain each day, with no control of any of it. My original surgeon has since retired.
My at-home option is to have another surgery - this one would be to remove the old rods and install new ones, slightly longer to get to S1, also install long pins inside my hips to build a tripod-like device inside me.
My away-from-home option is to go to the Stenum hospital in Germany, where they will install an artificial disk where mine is now missing. Their procedure is anterior access, just to that interface. The disk they will use is their new one called the M6.
Does anyone have experience with either of these procedures?
I appreciate any response, I am definitely struggling with what to do.
I hope someone out there has experience with the following - either good or bad.
I had a fusion with rods from T10 to L5 five years ago. My recovery was remarkable, I was lucky to have a great surgeon, and lots of support. I went on my way without realizing I could do damage to anything in my back. Now 5 years later the disk at L5 S1 is gone. I am bent forwards at my hips, and listing sideways I suppose because of the angle the vertebrae are resting on each other. I am in varying states of mobility and pain each day, with no control of any of it. My original surgeon has since retired.
My at-home option is to have another surgery - this one would be to remove the old rods and install new ones, slightly longer to get to S1, also install long pins inside my hips to build a tripod-like device inside me.
My away-from-home option is to go to the Stenum hospital in Germany, where they will install an artificial disk where mine is now missing. Their procedure is anterior access, just to that interface. The disk they will use is their new one called the M6.
Does anyone have experience with either of these procedures?
I appreciate any response, I am definitely struggling with what to do.
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