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Stomach Pain after Spinal Fusion

I have had 4 back surgerys all on the L5-S1, the first 3 were diskotomys (so spelt wrong) and the last one I had was in june of 2007, which I had the discotomy and the instrumental spine fusion, and at first I felt like I was improving and than my siatica came back full time in my left leg, all the way to my foot and partically in my right only to me knee, and since the Fusion I have been experiencing major pain that I feel from my back on the site of the fusion that goes into my abdomen and it's getting worse, it is central thou to the fusion site and I have asked my surgeons and my family physican and have gotten no results, and im living with not just low back pain but I have the leg pain the stomach pain and the back pain has traveled up my spine and now im experiencing pain in my neck and shoulders and the mid section of my spine too, I just really wanna know if there maybe a reason I am experiencing the pain from my spine into my stomach, it doesn't go away it is constant and intense, Please if you have any info I would be greatfull, Thanks
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If the doc refuses MRI ? Seek medical malpractice attorney  that offers free 1st vist. They'll take it on a contingency basis. As soon as you request the surgery notes from the record dept at the hospital where the surgery took place, the clerk will certainly let that surgeon know . That will make the surgeon nervous.  He will call you .
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I would demand a MRI of surgery area and abdomen.  There is a problem,  that is not normal  at all.  Perhaps the belly pain could be coincidental? But doesn't sound like it.
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