I have a question. Since having my bone density exam last week, and the back one being completely skewed due to my three articial lumbar discs....do we not need bone density exams on our backs anymore after ADR? Especially 3? Or is there a technique to reading them that these docs don't know about yet? In my other area, the hip, I actually maintained from last year. Which is really amazing since I stopped taking the Fosamax...too many side effects. So I can keep doing what I'm doing there anyway. Just very curious if anyone has any answers to this question, after ADR.
Thanks!
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CindyLou
bicycle accident 6/19/01
2 compression fractures, T12, L1;
vertibroplasty @ above levels, 9/15/01
4/06 hip labral tear repair
4/07 Lumbar ProDisc replacement by Dr. B., 3 levels; L3-6
7/2/08 ALIF of L6-S1
7/30/08 Removed bone cement.
8/7/08 Diagnosed with pulmonary embolism, double pneumonia, collapsed left lung, pleurisy, pleural effusion.
3/10/09 right SI Joint Fusion; seeing light at end of tunnel, for first time in 8 years!!
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