Hi,
I had just seen my scoliosis doctor for the 2nd time and we scheduled surgery for Sep 19. I left the office more confused than I was when I came there. My curves are T27 and L45 and the last time I saw this doc he said he would correct both of the curves as I was having pain in the upper back as oppose to the lower back where the larger curve is. This time the doc said he would operate on the lower curve only and he would not touch the upper curve and that should relieve my lower back. I told him that I don’t have low back pain but rather the upper back pain and he had the confused look on his face. So then he said since I have an upper back pain (which he is not sure why) that he would correct both curves and not only the lower curve as he initially said he would. Now I got a little worried because he is not sure whether the pain is caused by scoliosis or not. Part of the reason I am having this surgery is to get the pain relieve and since he is not sure why I have the pain in the upper back then maybe this surgery would not help the pain at all?
Also, I asked to see some of the other patient’s pictures of before and after, the PA was only showing me pictures of patients with severe scoliosis and she said that they normally operate on patients with severe cases. Also, when I asked for patients phone #s that are in my age group and had my type of curves, the PA told me that they don't really have that many patients in my age group (24) and that they treat many patients that are either younger or older than I am. So, I and my mom are even more confused. I would like to know whether my degree of the curve is normally operated on or do patients with this type of degree curves wait until it worsens to have surgery? I just want to say that I only have pain when I do something to cause it like clean, laundry, bath my kids, etc.... I don’t know whether that is severe enough to have surgery?
One last thing, my husband thinks that I should do it now as I am young and the chance of correction is much better now when the curves are not so severe. Also, friends and family don't notice my scoliosis until I tell them and I normally don't have pain because I jsut ask the babysitter or my husband to do it for me.
I would appreciate it if someone can give me some advice and do you think that I need to have this surgery!!!
I had just seen my scoliosis doctor for the 2nd time and we scheduled surgery for Sep 19. I left the office more confused than I was when I came there. My curves are T27 and L45 and the last time I saw this doc he said he would correct both of the curves as I was having pain in the upper back as oppose to the lower back where the larger curve is. This time the doc said he would operate on the lower curve only and he would not touch the upper curve and that should relieve my lower back. I told him that I don’t have low back pain but rather the upper back pain and he had the confused look on his face. So then he said since I have an upper back pain (which he is not sure why) that he would correct both curves and not only the lower curve as he initially said he would. Now I got a little worried because he is not sure whether the pain is caused by scoliosis or not. Part of the reason I am having this surgery is to get the pain relieve and since he is not sure why I have the pain in the upper back then maybe this surgery would not help the pain at all?
Also, I asked to see some of the other patient’s pictures of before and after, the PA was only showing me pictures of patients with severe scoliosis and she said that they normally operate on patients with severe cases. Also, when I asked for patients phone #s that are in my age group and had my type of curves, the PA told me that they don't really have that many patients in my age group (24) and that they treat many patients that are either younger or older than I am. So, I and my mom are even more confused. I would like to know whether my degree of the curve is normally operated on or do patients with this type of degree curves wait until it worsens to have surgery? I just want to say that I only have pain when I do something to cause it like clean, laundry, bath my kids, etc.... I don’t know whether that is severe enough to have surgery?
One last thing, my husband thinks that I should do it now as I am young and the chance of correction is much better now when the curves are not so severe. Also, friends and family don't notice my scoliosis until I tell them and I normally don't have pain because I jsut ask the babysitter or my husband to do it for me.
I would appreciate it if someone can give me some advice and do you think that I need to have this surgery!!!
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