Friday, October 20, 2006

Email reply to Fusion Question!

"part of email" As far as the fusion surgery well I have noticed A LOT of people having it done not sure if that is good or bad! Now majority of my symptoms have gone away with both decompression and fusion however the recovery is NOT PRETTY. Not sure if I would ever do it again. You lose a lot of your mobility in your neck. Each case varies of course. Just be prepared for a long.... recovery. I was not prepared for how much pain I was in and I was not on strong pain med's before the surgery. Do some reserch and talk to people as much as you can. Here are a few links that may help: Invasive Cervical Traction:http://www.killerbanshee.com/family/medical/headtongs.html Posterior Fossa Decompression Surgery:http://darienfawkes100.tripod.com/id3.html Angel Flights:http://www.angelflightne.org/angelflightne/

1 Comments:

Blogger Puglet said...

hellooooo from a fellow chiarian! I had my decompression done nov 30th. man..they really gave you a haircut!

My mom emailed my post surgery back of head pic ( 1 week out) complete with me flipping the bird as her xmas card ;)

Stop by..I'm far less technical and more an emotional blogger and am just starting to touch on chiari, other than "ow..quit it"

Friday, February 16, 2007  

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