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Reply With QuoteThanks Dave makes me feel so much better knowing there is someone out there with a good out come from ACDF.
Having my 2 level done next week.
Ron
This is a discussion on C5-6, 6-7 ACDF with Plating, done and wonderful!! within the Surgical Outcomes forums, part of the Spine Surgery Forums category; Aloha Dave, I am so glad you are going to Hawaii. I have been blessed to have gone 5 times! ...
Re: C5-6, 6-7 ACDF with Plating, done and wonderful!! Aloha Dave,
I am so glad you are going to Hawaii. I have been blessed to have gone 5 times! I have been to the four main islands. I feel a sence of peace and renewal there. There are so many things to do and see. Enjoy your trip! -Cheryl ps drink a Kona beer for meeat some
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42 year old female
Hyperflexion injury to neck young 20's
2 auto accidents
Three neck surgeries:
7/2007 PEEK implant w/titanium plate and screws at the C4-C5 & C5-C6
4 EMGS/NCS showing radiculopathy at all levels mentioned
7/2008 nerve root injections 2 times
9/2008 revision C4/5 & C5/6 due to failure of fusion replace PEEK implant w/donor bone graft new titanium plate and screws
10/2009 stand alone Peek cage C3/4
Arthritis of c-spine c6/7/t1
loss of muscle tone in forearms and hands
Re: C5-6, 6-7 ACDF with Plating, done and wonderful!! Thanks Dave makes me feel so much better knowing there is someone out there with a good out come from ACDF.
Having my 2 level done next week.
Ron
Re: C5-6, 6-7 ACDF with Plating, done and wonderful!! Dave just a quick question.
I am 12 weeks after surgery and still have neck and upper back pain.
acdf c5-6 c6-7.
Is it normal to still have pain after 12 weeks.
I quit smoking for a month after surgery and started again.
Maybe thats why?
Lakeman
Re: C5-6, 6-7 ACDF with Plating, done and wonderful!! Lakeman
FYI Smokers never healQUIT now for life not just for a month. You will heal faster and enjoy a healther life.
Gil
L5-S1 lam 1994
L2 to L5 DDD
L3 -L4 hern Dec 2007.
L4-L5 Annular fissure with mild central stenosis and moderate facet hypertrophy.
L5-S1 bilaterial neural foraminal narrowing with inferior effacement.
L2-L3 Right-sided neural foraminal narrowing
L3-L4 related to posterolateral hypertrophic spurs and facet hypertrophy.
C3-C4 limited DDD
15 injections Depo. P.T. 18 months 9 dose packs,
Nerve Block Injections.4 ESI S1
L5-S1 Foraminotomy 09
L4-L5 Microdiscectomy 09 ReHerniation 4-2010
Surgery 6-29-11 L4-L5-S1 Decompression Fusion L5-S1 and Coflex F implants
Re: C5-6, 6-7 ACDF with Plating, done and wonderful!! I'm no doc, so I can't say what is 'normal', but I'd have to second what Gilbert said. Every set of stats I've ever seen shows smoking is a HUGE problem with healing, and it gets significantly more so the more levels you have done.
That said, healing for me is an on again off again thing as the body gets used to not moving like it used to. I did find that I am VERY sensitive to sleep positions now, and can really light off my back with the wrong thickness & resilience of pillow etc... just something to think about.
Also, I'm a year + out and still have 'some' pain, but I can feel my arms & legs and don't walk with a cane anymore, so some of it is kinda relative
Cheers,
Dave
2 years of diagnositcs due to nonstandard symptoms (MD was looking for MS)
C56 & C67 ACDF with Plating March 8th 2010
Sciatica started April 2010
July 2010 - Lumbar Epidural series - temp relief only
December 2010 - found old MRI of lumbar showing bulged disk
January 2011 - New MRI shows same bulge contacting same disk
March 2011 - Laminectomy & subsequent infection of surgical site but got 3 good weeks
April 2011 - symptoms return, with new pain in other leg & lower back
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