Welcome David. Sorry to hear about your problems. I always felt better about the opinions through email or on the phone. I think that most doctors here, I have seen 7 so far, are all pretty much arrogant and are much more interested in going to a straight surgical route with fusion as that is the norm here and how they make the most money. I went to 4 doctors who specialize in ADR surgery, but wanted to do fusion anyway because I already had one. I believe that the fusion put me in the position of needing more surgery. I ended up going to Spain, and am very glad I did and would not hesitate to go back if needed. Have you had a bone density test done? I would do that first to make sure that you are a candidate for surgery. If you look for that in the forums, there are a number of posts about the reasons for getting the test done. I wish you good luck with your decisions.
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1979 car accident: rear ended
1980 ACDF C4-5
4/8/11 stopped, hit again
3 epidurals, PT, 2 MRI's,etc.
scheduled 3 times for C5-6, 6-7 fusion,
plus laminectomy at C3-4, and C 7, advised to do Bilateral lamino-foraminotomy C5-6, C6-7,a Percutaneous Discectomy L4 -L5
7/14 RFA on L3 to L5 (awake, local only)
C5-6,6-7 M-6 ADR with Dr. Clavel 9/17/14,
12/7/15 RFA L2-S1, Facet injections C2-7
6/3/16 RFA L2-S1, epidural L4,5, 8/26/16 RFA C1-7
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