Scoliosis surgery experiences decades later?

Scoliosis surgery experiences decades later Anyone had surgery to correct their scoliosis. What problems are you experiencing decades later?Thanks. Asked by falcios 41 months ago Similar questions: Scoliosis surgery experiences decades Health > Surgery.

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Yes, I had it done and it was worth it. I had it recently and keep looking to future. The toughest thing in the surgery that I had to deal with was believing that I would recover.

Most of the days that I was home I just lay around not wanting to get up or do anything. I hated walking for my therapy. All I wanted was to be back to me again.

I had to teach myself to notice the small steps of my progress and be happy with those. I had to learn that it was going to be a while before I was really back to normal. I still am doing more than I should according to the doctors but that is just me.

I sort of feel right now that my progress is being slowed by my doctors restricting me so much but in my next visit I will have a lot of the restrictions taken away. I just have to keep looking forward and into the future. I have to keep thinking that I will be one hundred percent in about a year.

Right now it is hard to look that far in advance because I want to swim now and I want to ride my bike now and I want to roller blade now, but I just have to wait - it's only three and a half months. I try to remember that inside healing bone takes longer even though I feel great.

Had surgery in '96 and experiencing some lingering issues but overall not bad. I had my scoliosis surgery back in June 1996 and while things are MUCH better now than they were right after I had the procedure, I am still having some issues. My biggest compliant has to do with the bottom of the rods slipping out from the hooks.

I had one slip in 1997 and had that removed along with some extraneous hardware. I still have a chunk of the rod protruding from the lower portion of my spine which is consistently sore. As a result of my scoliosis surgery, I was unable to get an epidural for both of my pregnancies, so I was "lucky" enough to feel EVERYTHING going on.

Yep, thank you scoliosis. Lastly, whenever I get sick, my illness seems to attack my spine--as if all the aching is centralized in that one portion of my body. I'm not sure if this is a direct result of the surgery, but I never had anything like this before the procedure.

Overall, a decade-plus later, things are not too bad. If one of my kids had to have this procedure done today, I would seriously weigh the benefits and drawbacks. For me, I'm able to deal with the issues since they're not serious or impede my day-to-day activities.

Sources: my opinion .

Scoliosis Surgery: Corey McConnell's Experience IntroductionI guess that I should start this book by telling you who I am, what my life is like and what I like to do. My name is Corey Elizabeth McConnell and I am 14 years old. I live in St.Louis, Missouri and am a freshman in high school.

I am a very positive person and like being around other people. I am a student council representative for my class and an honor roll student. I am 5 foot 8 and athletically built.

I lead a very busy life. There is nothing in the world that I like to do more than swim. Nothing could stop me from swimming (not even back surgery as you will soon find out).

I would live in the water if I could. I swim year round. Right now my professional goal is to be the head of the FBI (no big deal).

I am also a normal teenager, I get in trouble for talking on the phone too late or not telling my parents where I am going and who I will be with. Now that I have painted you a picture of my life I want to tell you about the toughest thing that I have ever gone through -- a spinal fusion. BackgroundSometimes in life you hit a speed bump and it slows you down for a little while or maybe even a long while.

Scoliosis is a genetic problem in my family. It is curvature of the spine. I found out that I had scoliosis when I was eleven.

I was in sixth grade and was having a great year until I found out that my curve had increased and I was going to have to wear a brace for two years. The doctors expected me to wear it twenty-four hours a day, three hundred sixty five days a year but there was no way that I was going to wear that sweaty, uncomfortable thing all day, so we negotiated. We decided that I would wear it for sixteen hours a day.

Which means that I wouldn't wear it to school. I was incredibly lazy about wearing the brace and my family got tired of telling me to put it on so I ended up just sleeping in it. After wearing the brace for about two years I went back to the doctor for my last check-up before getting rid of the brace(December 1994).

We had anticipated that this visit they would decide to wean me out of my brace and that I wouldn't have to worry about my scoliosis for the rest of my life. Boy! Were we wrong.

They took my x-rays and the doctor came in. I have two curves in my spine- a thoracic curve and a lumbar curve and it turned out that both of the curves had increased. My thoracic curve had increased to forty five degrees and my lumbar curve had increased to fifty five degrees.

This degree of curvature is what the doctors like to call the gray zone. You have two choices in this instance; you can leave your curves alone and see what progresses or you can have surgery. My doctors told me that if I left my curves alone that they would increase a degree a year which doesn't sound so bad until you factor in that I was only thirteen years old.By the time I was forty three I would have eighty degree curves and look like the hunch- back of Notre Dame.

For this reason and many others we decided to go ahead with the surgery. The particular kind of surgery that I had was called an anterior-posterior spinal fusion.It is about a ten-hour surgery in which they open you up on your side and on your back. In my particular surgery they would put three rods in my back and hold them together with five screws.

This would hold my spine straight.In order to help my bone grow they took out one of my ribs and six of my discs, and they also took a bone graft from my lower hip (right on my butt). They took this bone and filled three cages that hold Sources: http://www.spineuniverse.com/displayarticle.php/article1700.html .

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