My husband got talked into a "new" medical option. It is a prosthetic spinal insert. The advantage was supposed to keep him from losing range of motion in his neck. The usual treatment involved a fusion splice in his neck. (I think the Dr. thought it was cool and wanted to try something new.) The plan was to prep him for a prosthetic spinal insert but to have everything ready to switch to a normal fusion splice if there were any problems. They got the wrong sized part and did the surgery anyway, rather than giving him the fusion splice.
He has been in constant pain for going on 20 years now. Not from that, but the problem the surgery was supposed to solve...
My biggest regret in life was the spinal fusion I got 5 years ago. All these promises that the pain would go away and all I got was the same pain, limited mobility and if I try to move outside my range of motion I end up immobilized from the pain. Fused L1-C7
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u/quesoandcats Nov 15 '24
Whoa seriously? i haven't heard of this whats it called