Re: Deb J's consult w/Dr Moreno, 9/14/2007, 12:00 pm

September 15, 2007

Well I guess I am now an official member of your flatback group.

Yes, I now have an official flatback syndrom dx. My consult went

well and both my husband and I felt really comfortable with Dr.

Moreno and liked him very much. Thanks to all of the information I

have obtained here and all your posts I was well prepared for his

recommendation. He said I could continue on with my pain management

and not get any better or he could do surgery.

His surgical recommendation since I have severe Khyposis above my

rods (I am currently fused from T10 to L4) is to remove all the old

hardware and replace it with new hardware extending from my upper

thoracic area all the way down. He wants me to have a myelogram w/CT

scan along with an MRI of my cervical spine before saying exactly

what levels. I would also need the anterior/posterior approach and

he does his surgeries by staging them instead of all in one day.

There was certainly alot of information to absorb but I will

probably move forward with the surgery if I get the same

recommendation from my 2nd consult. I have been dealing with this

pain for 12 years and now that someone has finally given me some

hope I am ready to go for it.

Thanks to you,

Debbie J

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> Deb J's consult w/Dr Moreno

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