Re: Arachnoiditis and Tethered Cord!

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From my understanding, it isn't always Scar Tissue that's the problem in

Arachnoiditis..........it's Inflammation and Irritatation. You don't need to

have Surgeries to develop Arachnoiditis. It's kind of funny, if I'm not

mistaken, you would think that everybody with Tethered Cord would develop

Arachnoiditis, but it seems like that isn't the Case.

Tethered Cord doesn't develop because of a negative Healing

Process............it's just the natural part of Healing from Surgery, Scar

Tissue will develop. Nothing went wrong in the Healing Process for a

Retether to happen, it moreorless just happened, because that's just how

things go.

Hope this makes sense.

Me

Nebraska, USA

mymocha@...

scar tissue formation around the nerves(arachnoitodis) or

> retethering of the spinal cord(these 2 conditions result from a

> negative healing process post-operatively, the retethering can be

> corrected)

[Guest guest]

Yes, they are different. I asked my neurosurgeon about it.

Arachnoiditis has an inflammatory component to it resulting in a

progressive formation of scar tissue, which isn't jost local to the

area where surgery is performed. The inflammation can be seen on

MRIs as the spinal canal appears a bit wider and the nervers bigger

in diameter as a result of inflammation.

One of the stages of arachnoiditis is " adhesive arachnoiditis "

clinical symptoms are nearly identical to that of tethered cord

because there is adhesion to scar tissue. However, arachnoiditis

has no surgical remedy because any intervention aggravates the

inflammation; whereas, tethered cord is correctable because of the

absence of inflammation.

One women I talked to developed arachnoiditis after a detethering of

her spinal cord. The arachnoiditis was diagnosed when she had her

second untethering.

The primary cause of arachnoiditis is " multiple spinal cord

surgeries. "

> From my understanding, it isn't always Scar Tissue that's the

problem in

> Arachnoiditis..........it's Inflammation and Irritatation. You

don't need to

> have Surgeries to develop Arachnoiditis. It's kind of funny, if

I'm not

> mistaken, you would think that everybody with Tethered Cord would

develop

> Arachnoiditis, but it seems like that isn't the Case.

>

> Tethered Cord doesn't develop because of a negative Healing

> Process............it's just the natural part of Healing from

Surgery, Scar

> Tissue will develop. Nothing went wrong in the Healing Process for

a

> Retether to happen, it moreorless just happened, because that's

just how

> things go.

>

> Hope this makes sense.

>

> Me

> Nebraska, USA

> mymocha@c...

>

> scar tissue formation around the nerves(arachnoitodis) or

> > retethering of the spinal cord(these 2 conditions result from a

> > negative healing process post-operatively, the retethering can be

> > corrected)

[Guest guest]

Brande, do you know what the symptons of arachnoidits are?

>

>Reply-To: tetheredspinalcord

>To: <tetheredspinalcord >

>Subject: Re: Re: Arachnoiditis and Tethered Cord!

>Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 16:57:02 -0500

>

>From my understanding, it isn't always Scar Tissue that's the problem in

>Arachnoiditis..........it's Inflammation and Irritatation. You don't need

>to

>have Surgeries to develop Arachnoiditis. It's kind of funny, if I'm not

>mistaken, you would think that everybody with Tethered Cord would develop

>Arachnoiditis, but it seems like that isn't the Case.

>

>Tethered Cord doesn't develop because of a negative Healing

>Process............it's just the natural part of Healing from Surgery, Scar

>Tissue will develop. Nothing went wrong in the Healing Process for a

>Retether to happen, it moreorless just happened, because that's just how

>things go.

>

>Hope this makes sense.

>

>Me

>Nebraska, USA

>mymocha@...

>

>scar tissue formation around the nerves(arachnoitodis) or

> > retethering of the spinal cord(these 2 conditions result from a

> > negative healing process post-operatively, the retethering can be

> > corrected)

>

>

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[Guest guest]

Ok, I just wanted to post here cause I recently saw two

neurosurgeon's about this.

Anatomically arachnoitodis involves adhesions of nerves to scar

tissue. It is similar but not identical to retethering of the

spinal cord to nerves after an untethering procedure.

When our nerves retether to scar tissue it retethers to local scar

tissue(the scar tissue created from surgery). This can become

symptomatic and cause neuropathic pain, such as burning, numbness,

muscle aches, weakness and hypersensitivity.

Arachnoitodis has the same symptoms but differs from TCS because it

isn't local surgical scarring, it is a diffuse scaring that covers

the entire circumference of the spinal canal and is usually

identifiable on an MRI. Moreover, it is progressive and inevitably

results in a total lose of intradural space, which becomes totally

engrossed by scar tissue. The symptoms are similar to those of

tethered cord but they worsen over time and surgery can't correct it.

I ask one neurosurgeon if TCS surgery causes this disease and he

told me that arach is never caused by TCS surgery and is believed to

be caused by other mechinism such as bacterial/viral infection and

trauma.

The only time a TCSer gets a diagnosis for arach. is when a second

or third surgery is done to release the cord from scarring and the

surgeon believes that he cannot entirely release the cord from the

adhesions. At this point the surgeon will slap on a diagnosis of

arach because the TCS is no longer surgically manageable.

> Did you get those Sites that I posted awhile ago? If not, let me

know and

> I'll get them to you.

>

> Me

> Nebraska, USA

> mymocha@c...

>

> do you know what the symptons of arachnoidits are?

> >