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Old 03-13-2017, 03:00 AM
WakesurfMike WakesurfMike is offline
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https://www.facebook.com/groups/Disc...793552987/Well crap! I knew my osteopenia might be a problem and it is. Well I was feeling great for the first four days had zero back pain. On the fifth day I was feeling pretty good but did experience some pain when sitting/laying down. It felt better to be standing or walking so I went for a long walk around Goldock. About 3 miles in all. I was only taking acetaminophen and ibuprofen for pain meds. That night I started having pain on my right side of my back and little bit of shooting pain down leg when sitting. It still felt good standing up or walking. On Monday the 6 (6 days after surgery) I rented a car and drove 1:45 min to Zurich. During the drive the back pain got up to a 6 out of 10 and I was getting shooting pain down leg. The pain stopped after I walked around a bit. I saw Dr Rische and explained what was experiencing and he ordered X-rays for the following day. I checked into Airbnb and returned rental car. I bought a few groceries the next morning and walked about 1.5 miles to get some large bandages at a pharmacy. During this walk my back was not hurting but I Started getting pain in my right forefoot. In the afternoon I took another .6 mile walk to get x-Ray and haircut. On the walk back I only had very minimal pain. I showed up at physical therapy at 3 pm. (.2 mile walk) and was told Dr Rische need to speak with me. They called him and he gave me the news that the l4/l5 implant is subsiding (sinking into the vertebrae) and he needs to do a revision surgery. The surgery fee/ Klinick Pyramid surgery and 2 day fee will be $16.6 k. My family is working the money today and surgery will be on Friday the 10th. The procedure will use a ballon to lift implant and then the vertebrae will be filled with bone cement. https://youtu.be/_lUhQLFHriw Expect to be in hospital 2 days for recovery. I will need to stay in Zurick at least 2 weeks for follow up X-rays, physical therapy and removal of stitches , before returning to USA.

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I am in recovery room now. Dr Rischke used two balloons to lift implant back to position and the filled l5 vertebrae with bone cement. The kit had extra needles and so he injected bone cement into L4 vertebrae to strengthen it . He says it was successful and implant is back in position. I have to lay flat for 1 hr I am allowed to get up. I still have pain 6/10 in center of back, but no leg pain. I am not certain if pain is from vertebra or the 4 small incisions. Getting some pain meds by IV now and pain is going down. Images are from fluoroscopy print out so are not as clear as x-Ray image, but good enough to see implant is back in place. Pain med helping so down to 3/10 now.

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2007 Herniated L5/S1 Lifting changing X-ray tube at work. MRI PT/ Steroid shots/med
2009 switched to Remote/phone support
2010 workman’s comp lawsuit
2011 Microdiscectomy approved 80% pain relief
2011-2016 few flare ups but would always get beter after a few days.
6/2016 Pain is not going way
07/2016 MRI, tramodol, Nucynta, Celebrex
08/2016 Regenerxx PL-Disc shot- didn’t work at all
10/2016 can't even stand or sit for work for 30 minutes before pain gets worse
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