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Richard from Perth West Australia, looking for help and advice
Hello to everybody,
I wish to make this introduction short as I have already had two failed attempts...I will expand later, but briefly..... Have DDD and suffered full disk herniations at L4/L5, L5/S1 in 2006. Was treated with IDD (intervertabral disk decompression in London) which worked for 3 years, but problems have flared up again. No great help from surgeon here in Perth, only fusion offered, so have been in touch with Stenum and Pro Spine. Hopefully if this appears on the new members thread I will expand on my story and elucidate my questions. Til then take care, richard |
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Hey Rich,
Have you heard of Dr. Matthew Scott Young? He's in your country. Perhaps a ways away from you, but closer than Europe. He is considered one of world's most experienced spinal arthroplasty surgeons... Dr Matthew Scott-Young - Gold Coast Healthcare It's interesting to see ratings from patients of his work too. You won't find that in the US...yet. PS: I checked Google maps, it's only 4400 Km away from you. If you start driving now, you should get there in 2 days and four hours.
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"Harrison" - info (at) adrsupport.org Fell on my ***winter 2003, Canceled fusion April 6 2004 Reborn June 25th, 2004, L5-S1 ADR Charite in Boston Founder & moderator of ADRSupport - 2004 Founder Arthroplasty Patient Foundation a 501(c)(3) - 2006 Creator & producer, Why Am I Still Sick? - 2012 Donate www.arthropatient.org/about/donate |
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Hello and thanks..
Hiya.
No I haven't heard of the surgeon you mention, but will certainly look him up. My current thinking is go to the most advanced surgeon you can get access to, if that is in Germany, so be it, I come from the UK anyway, so can pop over there afterwards before returning to Australia. I assume that the cost of treatment would be par for either Australia or Germany. I'm now going to update my introduction, if you have any comments on that they would be gratefully appreciated. Til next time, regards. richard. |
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Help!!!
Hi.
Could you please tell me why every time I spend half an hour plus writing introduction and go to preview it, I am told to log on, despite already being logged, and subsequently loose everything written? This has happened 3 times and I am beginning to loose the will to live. In anticipation of your help, regards, richard. |
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Tech support call
Richard, I can't help you without talking to you live; so pls send me your phone information by email: info @ adrsupport .org (broken up to avoid spammers.)
You are 12 hours ahead of me here in Boston...
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"Harrison" - info (at) adrsupport.org Fell on my ***winter 2003, Canceled fusion April 6 2004 Reborn June 25th, 2004, L5-S1 ADR Charite in Boston Founder & moderator of ADRSupport - 2004 Founder Arthroplasty Patient Foundation a 501(c)(3) - 2006 Creator & producer, Why Am I Still Sick? - 2012 Donate www.arthropatient.org/about/donate |
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Into problems....
Hello,
thanks for contact re'above. I will email no' as you suggest. Regards, richard. |
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rich, it helps to highlight and copy your message before doing anything else. That way it is saved if things go wrong. It only took me half a dozen tries to realize this
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C3/4-5/6- Mod. ant., severe posterior bulging w. nerve root compression. Sev. narrowing of spinal canal with cord compression. L4/5/S1- Mod. narrowing, bulging disc, significant hypertrophy of flava lig. Highly allergic to all metals. NEW: 3/16/2010: Successful surgery in Brazil w. Dr. Pimenta; Nuvasive NeoDisc at C5/6, and XLIF & ALIF at L4/5/S1 w. PEEK cages. No rods, screws, plates. Non-metal lumbar ADR not available at present time, so went with fusion. |
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I get logged out all the time, not with ADRsupport, but with the on-line email service my company uses. I've taken to writing out the replies in Word and pasting them into the email reply. That trick or Maddie's might get you online and posting until you could talk with Rich.
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Laura - L5S1 Charitee C5/6 and 6/7 Prodisc C Facet problems L4-S1 General joint hypermobility Jim - C4/5, C5/6, L4/5 disk bulges and facet damage, L4/5 disk tears, currently using regenerative medicine to address "There are many Annapurnas in the lives of men" Maurice Herzog |
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With thanks...
Hello,
thanks for the posts in reply to my 'problem'. I believe that I have found the cause..... the idiot doing the typing (me). If, after pressing the 'preview' button, I had re-entered my log-in details I would have been re-directed to the preview page, instead I used the 'back' (no pun intended) button and thus lost all the work...you live and learn! All the best, richard. |
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