Wishing you a full and speedy recovery.

"Chuck Gould" wrote in message
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Wishing you a full and speedy recovery.


Thank you Chuck.

Glad to hear you came out in one piece. Hopefully all the rest is
temporary. I missed the details of your surgery plans. I have back issues
as well. What did you have done?

"JimH" wrote in message
...
Hi all.

First for all thanks for all the well wishes.

I had the operation on Tuesday 1-16. It was a 3 1/2 hour surgery. I was
finally released on Thursday 1-18. That night was the first good night of
sleep I had since the operation as there was no hospital staff to wake me
up every hour through the night.

My right leg is somewhat numb and I need a walker to get around as it will
not consistently hold my weight. I had been confined to the 2nd story of
house for the past few days but decided I had enough of the confinement so
I got downstairs like I got upstairs on Thursday....on my butt and one
step at a time.

With 312 unread messages (after I filtered out the ones from the a-holes,
including the non boating golfers) I have a lot of reading to do

"James" wrote in message
hlink.net...
Glad to hear you came out in one piece. Hopefully all the rest is
temporary. I missed the details of your surgery plans. I have back
issues as well. What did you have done?


Thanks James!

The official name of the surgery was "disk decompression" with a bone
opening procedure (I don't know the technical name of that operation).

The surgery concentrated on L2-L3, the spinal area where a herniation and
bulging of the disk was causing my leg numbness and leg/back pain.
Additionally, the bone channel which the nerves pass through had a very
small opening (a condition I had since birth) compounding the problem. The
doctor cut away the herniation and opened the bone channel allowing more
room for the nerves to pass through.

You can be in the best of shape and still develop back problems.

JimH wrote:
You can be in the best of shape and still develop back problems.

agreed!

"Harry Krause" wrote in message
...
On 1/22/2007 10:23 AM, JimH wrote:
"James" wrote in message
hlink.net...
Glad to hear you came out in one piece. Hopefully all the rest is
temporary. I missed the details of your surgery plans. I have back
issues as well. What did you have done?


Thanks James!

The official name of the surgery was "disk decompression" with a bone
opening procedure (I don't know the technical name of that operation).

The surgery concentrated on L2-L3, the spinal area where a herniation and
bulging of the disk was causing my leg numbness and leg/back pain.
Additionally, the bone channel which the nerves pass through had a very
small opening (a condition I had since birth) compounding the problem.
The doctor cut away the herniation and opened the bone channel allowing
more room for the nerves to pass through.




You obviously did not see the AMA article that showed how this condition
could be alleviated by registering as a Democrat and voting for Hillary
Clinton for President in 2008.

The you'd have a pain in the a**. 8)

They go through the front or the back? Minimally invasive or regular?
My troubles are l4-l5-s1 but if I get surgery it will be a double
fusion. I don't have enough disks left there to fix.

JimH wrote:
"James" wrote in message
hlink.net...
Glad to hear you came out in one piece. Hopefully all the rest is
temporary. I missed the details of your surgery plans. I have back
issues as well. What did you have done?


Thanks James!

The official name of the surgery was "disk decompression" with a bone
opening procedure (I don't know the technical name of that operation).

The surgery concentrated on L2-L3, the spinal area where a herniation and
bulging of the disk was causing my leg numbness and leg/back pain.
Additionally, the bone channel which the nerves pass through had a very
small opening (a condition I had since birth) compounding the problem. The
doctor cut away the herniation and opened the bone channel allowing more
room for the nerves to pass through.

You can be in the best of shape and still develop back problems.

harry, It does work on having a stonger back and a stronget backbone..
No doubt!

But you didn't read the warning about side effects like "Perpetual
Diahrea.."



Harry Krause wrote:
On 1/22/2007 10:23 AM, JimH wrote:
"James" wrote in message
hlink.net...
Glad to hear you came out in one piece. Hopefully all the rest is
temporary. I missed the details of your surgery plans. I have back
issues as well. What did you have done?


Thanks James!

The official name of the surgery was "disk decompression" with a bone
opening procedure (I don't know the technical name of that operation).

The surgery concentrated on L2-L3, the spinal area where a herniation and
bulging of the disk was causing my leg numbness and leg/back pain.
Additionally, the bone channel which the nerves pass through had a very
small opening (a condition I had since birth) compounding the problem. The
doctor cut away the herniation and opened the bone channel allowing more
room for the nerves to pass through.




You obviously did not see the AMA article that showed how this condition
could be alleviated by registering as a Democrat and voting for Hillary
Clinton for President in 2008.

"Harry Krause" wrote in message
...
On 1/22/2007 10:23 AM, JimH wrote:
"James" wrote in message
hlink.net...
Glad to hear you came out in one piece. Hopefully all the rest is
temporary. I missed the details of your surgery plans. I have back
issues as well. What did you have done?


Thanks James!

The official name of the surgery was "disk decompression" with a bone
opening procedure (I don't know the technical name of that operation).

The surgery concentrated on L2-L3, the spinal area where a herniation and
bulging of the disk was causing my leg numbness and leg/back pain.
Additionally, the bone channel which the nerves pass through had a very
small opening (a condition I had since birth) compounding the problem.
The doctor cut away the herniation and opened the bone channel allowing
more room for the nerves to pass through.




You obviously did not see the AMA article that showed how this condition
could be alleviated by registering as a Democrat and voting for Hillary
Clinton for President in 2008.


But then I would have constant diarrhea and nausea!

"jamesgangnc" wrote in message
ups.com...
They go through the front or the back? Minimally invasive or regular?
My troubles are l4-l5-s1 but if I get surgery it will be a double
fusion. I don't have enough disks left there to fix.

JimH wrote:
"James" wrote in message
hlink.net...
Glad to hear you came out in one piece. Hopefully all the rest is
temporary. I missed the details of your surgery plans. I have back
issues as well. What did you have done?


Thanks James!

The official name of the surgery was "disk decompression" with a bone
opening procedure (I don't know the technical name of that operation).

The surgery concentrated on L2-L3, the spinal area where a herniation and
bulging of the disk was causing my leg numbness and leg/back pain.
Additionally, the bone channel which the nerves pass through had a very
small opening (a condition I had since birth) compounding the problem.
The
doctor cut away the herniation and opened the bone channel allowing more
room for the nerves to pass through.

You can be in the best of shape and still develop back problems.


They went in through the back in my case.

Sorry to hear about your condition. There is some progress in the US on
replacing discs with artificial discs, but the FDA has not yet approved it.
It is apparently being done in Europe though. This would eliminate the
need to fuse your vertebrae.

http://orthopedics.about.com/cs/back...eplacement.htm

http://www.spineuniverse.com/display...ticle1671.html

http://www.spine-health.com/research...ificial01.html