RE: Surgery questions - time off? question for Nina

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Nina - I know you had the same surgery as me (tight filum) at around the same

age. I am having a frustrating time recovering from surgery which was 10 months

ago. You said it took you several years to recover? I am really confused as my

neurosurgeon thinks my increased pain is due to my spondylothesis but that does

not make sense to me as the pain increased after tc surgery and they did not go

near my spondo. Just had a cat scan and my spondo has not gotten worse since

pre-surgery. Am waiting for an MRI but that is not until May. Can you

elaborate on your recovery? If there is anyone else who had this surgery and

took a long time to recover would love to hear from you. I know there are many

who were worse after surgery but from my understanding most were more

complicated cases with lipomas, etc. I really don't want to go through another

surgery if there is still hope that my post op symptoms could be just taking a

long time to go away. (my neurosurgeon has always told me he wasn't sure how

much pain was from my tc versus the spondo, but the tc surgery was the simplest

to do so that is where we started.)

Dee

To: tetheredspinalcord

From: Nina.Bunton@...

Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:19:46 +0000

Subject: Re: Surgery questions - time off?

Hi, I was one week in hospital and 8 weeks off work, back for 2

weeks and

then another 2 weeks off

I then had about 4 years of SLOW recovery, but only now (nearly 8 years

post op) do I feel anything like before my deterioration

It is a SLOW SLOW job and nothing you can do can make it better any faster!!

Nina

www.btinternet.com/~tetheredcordresources

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> Thanks for everyone that responded to my first two questions. I've

> printed them all out and am taking them with me to the hospital as back

> up that I don't want to be moved to early.

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> NEXT QUESTION: For the adults that have had TC surgery, how long were

> you in the hospital and how long was your recovery at home?

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> Of course I know everyones surgeries are different, and certainly

> everyone heals at a different rate so I'm just looking for ball park

> figures. My NS says 4-6 days in the hospital and that I should be good

> as new in a couple of weeks. That would be great but from some of the

> stories I've read it sounds a little optamastic to me. He is a pedatric

> NS and kids bounce back much faster than adults. I'm 46.

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> Thanks in advance everyone!

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