Hey Kurt you can slow down your progression of DDD by taking heavy doses of glucosamine. It's been shown clinically that for early degeneration glucosamine has reversed the degeneration while for the late degeneration,it didn't make it any worse or better. In other words, glucosamine inhibited the degeneration. 3 levels is pretty huge surgery. More than likely, your treating doc would consider fusion plus ADR. It makes no sense to get ADR at L5-S1 as you have no motion at that level anyways and there has been evidence that fusion at lowest level does not cause adjacent levelDDD.
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2006-weightlifting accident.
2008-2 level disectomy/laminotomy. completely healed.
2010: car accident. reherneated
2011-diagnosed with two level DDD L4-L5 L5-S1
2011-ESI performed then 2 level disectomy/lami
12/11: Diagnosed with spinal infection. Currenly on antibiotics (ivy). changes in mri due to infection. rushed to the hospital. got surgical drainage and a laminectomy at l5 and another partial laminectomy at l4.
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