Curt,
I think you are doing the right thing going overseas. I have been in pain since I was 15 too. (That is now 20 years for me). Do not wait any longer.
I am having six levels redone by Dr. Clavel next Monday.
My prognosis by American docs was a lifetime of pain and a wheelchair.
I won't sugar coat it either. Use your college fund, have your parents mortgage their house do whatever you need too do, but get to Europe to get yourself fixed. The discs above the four major ones aren't looking so great either. Likely from all the strain of the four bad ones underneath. Get this done before those get stressed even more.
Was this the result of an injury?
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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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