DR.STOLL,
ON NOV.16,97 MY 34YR.OLD HUSBAND HAD A SPINAL FUSION DONE ON HIS L5, HE HAS EXTREME PAIN DOWN HIS LEFT LEG ,STILL! BACK PAIN STILL TOO! HIS DOCTOR WENT THRU HIS STOMACHE FOR THIS SURGERY, I DON'T KNOW IF THIS IS COMMAN OR NOT? CAN YOU HELP? MY HUSBAND NOW HAS RETROGRADE EJACULATION IN WHICH NONE OF HIS DOCTOR'S HAS EXPLAINED WHAT CAUSED THIS? HE WAS FINE BEFORE SURGERY,WITH THAT PART!HE AND I WOULD LOVE MORE CHILDREN, IS THIS PROBLEM REVERSIBLE?
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Re: SPINAL FUSION
Posted by Walt Stoll on February 10, 1999 at 13:42:55:
In Reply to: SPINAL FUSION posted by C.OSBORNE on February 09, 1999 at 01:22:23:
Dear C.,
I sincerely wish you both had read the archives for this BB before he had this done. The crime is that your surgeon was guilty of what the wise man said so many years ago: "To a hammer, everything looks like a nail!"
It is possible that his surgery was his only option. However, the odds are that it was not and his complication could have been avoided. Not only that, but he still has not resolved what he had before the surgery.
EVEN THOUGH he now has to cope with whatever damage that has been done, STILL his best chance is to do those things that he should have been told about BEFORE the surgical choice was made.
Go to the archives for this BB and read everything you can find about spinal conditions that are frequently surgerized. It will take you a couple of hours but what is that considering what is happening right now?
THEN, if you still have questions, write again.
Walt