Boy, this is exhausting!
Thank you all for taking the time to reply. I'm STILL reading and reading... Have two calls/emails in to two other docs (one in MD who has done multilevel ADR) and one here in FL who is ProDisc trained. It looks like a hybrid surgery would be the best choice my insurance company would approve. I just want someone to at least tell me that I'd be a candidate! Hoping to hear back tomorrow.
I've added Lidoderm patches to my daily "intake" of pain management. They seem to help. Reading all of your postings, that you lived with pain for a year or more.. Just bums me.. As its only been 6 months and I'm beginning to feel defeated. Just thankful that some of you have actually had success with multilevel ADR and/or hybrid in the US. Out of the country surgery isn't an option for me.. So I continue to comb the Internet, to try and identify the best here for ADR. If anyone could recommend ProDisc surgeons on US, I'd be grateful.
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Deb
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1988 diagnosed with DDD, bulging
2012 trauma lumbar following yard work
Nov 2012 MRI Bulging discs L4,5, S1
Mild stenosis
Dec-Jan PT
Jan 2013 Discogram
Results Level 5 Annular tears L3-4, L4-5 and L5-S1
Need 3 disc fusion
Facet Joints injections, March 2013- no relief
Transform.., Epidural Injections 4-23-13 Right L2-3 No relief
2nd ESI 5-14-13 L3-4, L4-5, L5-S1 No relief ugh.
ADR L3-4, L4-5, Fusion L5-S1 Fusion Dr.Blumenthal TBI July, 2013
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