- Oct 26, 2012
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So I've had back pain for quite sometime, it was debilitating and got worse and worse. I could only stand for 1-2 mins before EVERYTHING waist down to the bottom of my feet was completely numb then followed with intense pain. I had MRI's and a CT's down. My L4-L-5 disc was really thin and worn out and protruding. At my L5-S1 my spine had shifted at least 50% which was a crazy amount, they normally measure people's shifts in mm mine was in cm. I also no longer had any disc at my L5-S1 and it was bone on bone. They also found they I had a broken bone off one of my vertebrae's which was putting a lot of pressure on nerves as if there wasn't already enough with everything else, so I was quite depressed for awhile as I really couldn't do anything.
I found one of the best neurosurgeons in the country that specializes in spines.
The Surgery: They first went in my back and realigned spine and used screws and rods to accomplish that, they removed that broken bone an did a bone graph from my understanding. They did a Posterolateral Lumbar Fusion with an Anterior Interbody Fusion. So when they closed my back up they then went in through the stomach to the other fusion and but in disc implants that were part plastic material and steel wrapped and the disc implant had donor bone in the middle and they screwd those in from the front into the donor bone.. So they got me from the front and back they called it a 360 and fused from the L-4 to S-1. They also put in screws in my iliac to reinforce and strengthen everything..
Let me tell you about pain it was unreal!
I found one of the best neurosurgeons in the country that specializes in spines.
The Surgery: They first went in my back and realigned spine and used screws and rods to accomplish that, they removed that broken bone an did a bone graph from my understanding. They did a Posterolateral Lumbar Fusion with an Anterior Interbody Fusion. So when they closed my back up they then went in through the stomach to the other fusion and but in disc implants that were part plastic material and steel wrapped and the disc implant had donor bone in the middle and they screwd those in from the front into the donor bone.. So they got me from the front and back they called it a 360 and fused from the L-4 to S-1. They also put in screws in my iliac to reinforce and strengthen everything..
Let me tell you about pain it was unreal!