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Okay - everyone make up! I don't want to see any fighting! But I do appreciate someone defending me (Thanks Structural!) I used the word offended to describe the two people who didn't like or were concerned about advertising. Just not sure how else a doctor reaches the masses in a country beside PR - which he does as well. I agree, it can be uncomfortable at first, but me and others you have seen hear saw it and felt hope for the first time.
The "book" you talk about varies by author (figure of speech). Most people consider over 60 degrees operable (even at the military hospitals) - it just depends on what the kyphosis is doing to you. I also had scoliosis.
I went from a 67 to a 77 degree curve in 4 mos. My spine literally was collapsing. I had already had two previous back surgeries inc. a l4-5, s1 fusion w/ bak cages done - anterior. My husband was serving in the middle east when my daughter was born and did so until she was 10 mos old. I breast fed up until my surgery because she was unable to take a bottle. That load along w/ hormones caused a downward spiral.
When I saw "saved my life" I am mean mentally and physically. The pain was debilitating... even before my pregnancy, it was awful the "hunch" in my back was getting so bad so fast, and then pregnancy just put the icing on the cake. I had unexplained tachtocardia (?) and what I thought was asthma. The asthma disappeared after surgery - yeah! If you don't think a 77 degree curve is serious stuff, I'd love to email anyone my before and after xrays. I was the hunchback of notredame.
But besides that, the discs in my thoracic were popping out like pez candy! I had so much stenosis that they pushed right on my thecal sac - it affected bowel function, my legs, chest pain, so much more. The pain was incredible. No one could help me. I was losing my mind. Seriously. (and I am not a wimp! but it was intense!)
Structural was right with regards to my situation. She nailed it.
If someone is an alcoholic or drug addict and they rehabilitate, we say that AA or someone "saved their life" because they weren't functioning in a normal way or in a positive way. More than that happened with me. There is just so many things that I haven't even touched on, but KNOW that the medical issues were numerous.
Am I perfect now? Nope. Grateful for the improvement? Absolutely.
Diane
PS - I tried all that stuff for over a decade - rolfing, deep tissue, physical therapy, tens units, stretching machines, an inversion table, etc. etc. I did NOT want surgery. Until the desperation and pain had me in a non-functioning state.
Okay - everyone make up! I don't want to see any fighting! But I do appreciate someone defending me (Thanks Structural!) I used the word offended to describe the two people who didn't like or were concerned about advertising. Just not sure how else a doctor reaches the masses in a country beside PR - which he does as well. I agree, it can be uncomfortable at first, but me and others you have seen hear saw it and felt hope for the first time.
The "book" you talk about varies by author (figure of speech). Most people consider over 60 degrees operable (even at the military hospitals) - it just depends on what the kyphosis is doing to you. I also had scoliosis.
I went from a 67 to a 77 degree curve in 4 mos. My spine literally was collapsing. I had already had two previous back surgeries inc. a l4-5, s1 fusion w/ bak cages done - anterior. My husband was serving in the middle east when my daughter was born and did so until she was 10 mos old. I breast fed up until my surgery because she was unable to take a bottle. That load along w/ hormones caused a downward spiral.
When I saw "saved my life" I am mean mentally and physically. The pain was debilitating... even before my pregnancy, it was awful the "hunch" in my back was getting so bad so fast, and then pregnancy just put the icing on the cake. I had unexplained tachtocardia (?) and what I thought was asthma. The asthma disappeared after surgery - yeah! If you don't think a 77 degree curve is serious stuff, I'd love to email anyone my before and after xrays. I was the hunchback of notredame.
But besides that, the discs in my thoracic were popping out like pez candy! I had so much stenosis that they pushed right on my thecal sac - it affected bowel function, my legs, chest pain, so much more. The pain was incredible. No one could help me. I was losing my mind. Seriously. (and I am not a wimp! but it was intense!)
Structural was right with regards to my situation. She nailed it.
If someone is an alcoholic or drug addict and they rehabilitate, we say that AA or someone "saved their life" because they weren't functioning in a normal way or in a positive way. More than that happened with me. There is just so many things that I haven't even touched on, but KNOW that the medical issues were numerous.
Am I perfect now? Nope. Grateful for the improvement? Absolutely.
Diane
PS - I tried all that stuff for over a decade - rolfing, deep tissue, physical therapy, tens units, stretching machines, an inversion table, etc. etc. I did NOT want surgery. Until the desperation and pain had me in a non-functioning state.
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