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Originally Posted by gymnast1981
18 is way toooo young to have to have major back surgery... I was 23 when i found out i needed soemthing but waited and waited and finally did it 8 years later.
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I completely disagree. I have needed my ADR since I was a teenager and am just now getting to it. 20 years is far too long to lose of your life due to pain. I wish to God I had done it long ago when I was first injured. I wouldn't have missed out on 20 years of my life, and most of my son's.
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Multiple traumas to spine starting age 13.
1st American to have 6 ADR's in one surgery. C3-4 - C/7, & L5-S1 - L3-4.
Surgery w/ Dr. Clavel, 3/18/13, M6.
Before surgery: severe spinal stenosis C5/C6 (cord "flattened" per stateside doc), + for Hoffman's & Babinsky's.
At time of surgery: 5 yrs MAX before ending up in wheelchair.
Clavel found L5-S1 partially fused. Had to cut it apart to put in M6.
Please excuse brevity - SEVERE carpel tunnel.
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