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cervical fusion
by bdm92, Jul 15, 2008 10:22PM
I had cervical fusion in March of this year, Since then I have just not felt well at all, I have all over muscle pain and ALOT of fatigue, also can not get enough sleep, my doctor did many tests and all were normal except I had a positive ana, so he sent me to a rheumatologist, this guy says this is secondary fibro, and he does not pay much attention to ana tests. He gave me some muscle relaxors and pain meds, my question is will this ever get better?
I feel like ****, and the last X ray I had done showed my fusion was not fusing as fast as the surgeon thinks it should be. I am young and do not smoke, and I am not overweight so why would the fusion be so slow.
This fatigue and muscle pain, and dizziness, headaches, is just starting to be too much to handle. Any thoughts.
Bdm92
I feel like ****, and the last X ray I had done showed my fusion was not fusing as fast as the surgeon thinks it should be. I am young and do not smoke, and I am not overweight so why would the fusion be so slow.
This fatigue and muscle pain, and dizziness, headaches, is just starting to be too much to handle. Any thoughts.
Bdm92
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Muscle pain and fatigue is seen in many patients who have undergone a cervical fusion. The rehabilitation after fusion surgery is a long drawn process and sometimes takes many months.
I would suggest you to seek the help of a trained physical therapist as physical therapy will slowly and gradually alleviate your symptoms.
if you can stand the pain,don't have surgery-no guarantees and make the doctor stop and answer every question and every concern you have. if they do not;get a second opinion. normally surgery is to stop pain and keep us working. make sure,that is the idea;and your chances of.
not to mention that you need someone with you at all times after surgery for more than a month.