Thanks for responding.

That's so great that they have these types of surgeries available, sounds like getting some control of the pain will help a lot. How have you dealt with the mental aspect of the pain?

Do you follow an exercise routine to maintain your shoulder health? What will you do to keep your shoulder strength while you're in recovery/hospital?

I was diagnosed with dislocated 6th vertebrae when I was 19. Apparently it has dislocated and has also disfigured so I would need a new vertebrae. It does press on the nerves at times causing either pain or random twitches. I have been training for years now and have Pt who is specialised in sports injuries etc so I don’t feel pain anymore. However when I was 19 they told me I’ll need surgery in the future so keep us updated how it goes.
Might have to consider it at some point once working out often isn’t an option anymore

Im pulling for you brah. I have to get jaw surgery/realignment next year for my massive overbite so will know those invasive surgery feels soon enough. On the bright side you can look forward to a brighter future with less pain; improved health. Also at least you won't be missing much during recovery with covid stopping the world in its tracks.

sorry to hear
that bro, take care
hope things will get better, i cant advise u
but dont ignore the diet/supps...srs
curcumin/fishoil/vitd even if they gave minor outcome

Curcumin, omega-3s may preserve walking ability post-spinal cord injury
https://www.newhope.com/supply-news-...al-cord-injury
https://www.spandidos-publications.c.../mmr.2017.7464

would you rather be imbored21 or niklol ?

godspeed op

geaux tigahs

you can cut sensory nerves without effecting motor function. is that not plausible?

Best wishes bro
The mental aspect is honestly the worst
Currently recovering from left shoulder labrum repair 7 weeks ago and going in for right side in a few weeks ... have dislocated both in the past (football and power lifting) and decided to deal with it this year, not gonna be back completely until January or so. Sucks but that’s life

Modern orthopedic medicine is a miracle though, you will be back in no time

Why didnt you get an Asian bf with a small coc so that it doesn't blow out your back?

Which do like better shrimp etouffee or crawfish etouffee?

Do you have any breathing impairments due to the SCI? I had my spine fused back in the day due to kyphoscoliosis, but the curve is bad enough, plus the trunk rotated enough over time, that my lungs don't expand properly due to a deformed chest wall.

What are your options for Sciatica? I know of a few people that had it and they said it's MISERABLE. My mom had it and she's one of those dumbies that refuses to go to the doctor. I'd recommend a neurologist if it keeps getting worse.

Thank ya.It really is. No idea what I'd do if there weren't these kind of options.

I deal with the pain pretty well. I've dealt with different types of pain since about 2008, so I'm good at hiding that something hurts. Don't like people to notice it because it dampers the mood and don't want to be seen as weak. I take pain meds that might knock off a chip of the boulder that is the pain, but for the most part I just deal with it. It's just gotten to the almost unbearable point.

Not at the moment, no. If this surgery goes well, I do plan on going back to the gym. My shoulders, chest, back, and arms are all stupid strong because of the chair, though. I won't do anything while recovering. Will probably be bedridden for a while, then just slowly start rolling around again until everything is healed. Then get swole again.Those always make me smile.Oh, damn. Do you know what might've dislocated it and what did your pain feel like? Awesome that you don't get that anymore. I get leg spasms, so I know that twitch feel. Can be quite annoying.

Is it C6 or T6 and do you know if it'd be a fusion to correct it? Only way to get a new vertebra that I know of is a fusion. Two vertebrae become 1. Lose some mobility but could be worth it for you if other problems come up.

Will update the thread when I'm well enough to do so after the surgery.Are you going to require your jaw to be shut for however long the recovery time is?

What exactly do they have to do to correct it? Spine surgery? I'm okay with it. Jaw surgery? Nah. That can **** right off, lol.

I miss the world without covidI mean it's been 14 years since my paralysis. There's nothing available to reverse the cord damage done. No medication, supplement, or whatever can remove the scar tissue without making more scar tissue, then the pathways would have to reconnect to the same, old pathways, which wouldn't happen. Seriously, not walking again doesn't bother me. All any of that research and supplement stuff would do is potentially give some false hope, and I'm not down with that stuff. False hope almost broke me years back, so I try to stay as far away from it as possible.

The stuff you mentioned seems like it'd be good for acute (recent) injuries and normal degeneration due to old age, not very old trauma.Yes

HELL YEAH!!!!I'm not as knowledgeable with the nervous system as I should be lol. It probably is plausible, but I don't care. I just want the pain gone. My pain doctor has done a ton of procedures, including nerve ablations, which will damage all or part of a nerve but it's temporary. The neurectomies are permanent. I actually wanted the neuro to just sever my spinal cord again, which is the last resort. The only issue with my case is that the pain is coming from above my T10 injury, so I'd be dealing with more issues and potentially autonomic dysreflexia, which can be a mother ****er for crips. If this surgery doesn't work out, I'm going to beg for him to do it, anyway.

I found out something hilariously tragic last year. Ever since 2006, I thought my entire cord from T9-T10 was ruined. Nothing worked. That's not the case. The dorsal part of the cord is still intact and sending signals, which, I'm assuming, is why I still have some sensation. You know what part of the spinal cord is responsible for transmitting pain signals? The dorsal part. Had a good laugh when my pain doc told me that.I've always been good with the mental aspect of everything. I have a "**** happens" attitude for stuff like that. Dealt myself this hand so gotta deal with it. Yup.

Damn, didn't realize they'd do them that close together. I also dislocated my shoulder playing football lmao. Such a fun, violent, dangerous sport! What lift were you doing when the other one happened? Can't imagine the terror of that happening. My neurosurgeon mentioned that it's best to get what we're doing done while I'm still "young", so the same definitely goes for you. The older you get, the more complications there could be. And, again, quality of life >>>>>>Yeah, I really messed up there.Crawfish, easily. EASILY. ****, now I want someI guess you can say yeah because it's hard for me to get my heart rate up. I had to go get a CT myleogram last week and I had to park in the VERY back of the furthest parking lot. There was a slight incline to get out of the that lot and I was pretty much out of breath by the time I was 1/2 way out. I smoked for about 10 years, so that's the only issue my lungs have, but it's negligible if I'm in shape, like I was during my 11 years of college.

What level was fused and did you get instrumentation put in? That sucks about the lungs, man. What are they doing for that?

This is depressing as hell. I really hope it goes right for you.

It'll only be depressing if the surgery doesn't work.

gl brah, pls stay safe

How did surgery go?

Went very, very well. The right hip pain is almost completely gone, which I wasn't expecting.

The entire thing was a crazy experience. I was knocked out well before I thought I was going to be. Anesthesiologist is telling me about the procedure after I get an IV in my right hand, tells me that we're going to get something put in my left radial artery to monitor my blood pressure, heart rate, etc in real time instead of however long it takes for a cuff to work or whatever else you use and then I woke up in the post-op room with the worst chest pain that I've ever had. I thought I was having a heart attack. I had to be positioned a certain way for the surgery, with some big "padded" bar across my chest, which is why it was hurting so much. I'm legitimately amazed at how well everything went for this surgery, even with the few complications that I had.

I had three complications since being in the hospital:
1. Excessive bleeding. They said I bled about 1200ccs more than what they would consider "normal", so they used some kind of machine to clean 800ccs and put it back into my body. I've been getting blood drawn every day/night and some of my numbers were pretty low because of the two drainage ports above and on both sides of my incision. I had to get a blood transfusion (2 units) yesterday because of some of my numbers being low and my blood pressure was also pretty low. All the numbers and blood pressure went back to normal after the blood was transfused. Also found out that I'm blood type AB+ ftmfw.

2. I ended up coming down with a 103 fever on Thursday night. I had two different visitors on Thursday so the hospital and me were kind of freaking out and set something up for me to meet an infectious diseases doctor around 4am. Had a bunch of tests run, bloodwork, etc and he mentioned that the infection was most likely due to something in my lungs than covid. Infection lasted a day but it's gone now. Never got a definitive answer on where the infection came from, though. Was told the lung thing and sometimes small infections like mine happen after major surgeries that aren't big deals because of the amount of antibiotics you get after surgeries like this.

3. The itching.... THE ITCHING... I was obviously on a ridiculous amount of opiates after the procedure but it's usually my face and neck that itch from opiates, not my spine and chest, and it was CONSTANT. I kept bringing up the itching and they just made it seem like it was from the opiates. It was a day or two later when I showed them the rash on my chest that they took the itching more seriously. Switched up the antibiotics last night and chest isn't itching anymore so there you go. That **** was unbelievably annoying.


This was legitimately a great experience as far as surgeries go. The botched fusion that I had done early in the year was a minimally invasive surgery. Maybe a 6-8" incision in my side and that was one of the most excruciating post-op experiences I've ever had. This post-op was a BREEZE compared to that. The soreness throughout my entire torso on Thursday was ludicrous, but it's still nothing compared to what I was expecting. I'm able to get myself in and out of my wheelchair on my own already and I'm leaving the hospital to go home in less than an hour. I'll be managing my pain with the meds that I have to get filled on the ride home and will call a physical therapist on Monday if I feel that I need one, which I don't think I'll need.

There are two HUGE differences that I now have to deal with after the surgery. The first and most important is being free of the burning, pins and needles pain that was constantly driving me up a ****ing wall. I have a bunch of doctor appointments coming up over the next couple of weeks, but hopefully that pain stays gone. I'm truly amazed that it worked as well as it did. The other difference is that I can no longer really bend my spine. Can't do crunches, can't do sit ups, will have to get used to being much more top heavy now because a lot of my trunk muscles have just become useless. Have to use my hands and arms a lot more to balance myself now. Below is a picture of the incision. The drainage ports are where those tubes are going.







That picture is from Thursday, I believe.

Glad to hear you are doing much better OP. The machine they used to filter your blood is a hemodialysis machine btw. Still planning on getting off the opiates?

the misc was full of sharks back then, holy fuk

glad to see this bumped. was just wondering how everything went. hope the pain doesn't come back

Good luck man, I know you have suffered a lot.

Just saw that it was a success, happy to hear. It looks painful

So glad the surgery was successful and I hope the pain stays gone.

How much you dreading going "under the knoife" as it was OP?

Goddammit that incision holy chit

My bro had emergency spinal surgery after he almost paralyzed himself deadlifting and his pecs both atrophied massively from being face down and temporarily trapping his nerves

Glad the pain is gone

Glad the surgery was a success. Good that the pain is almost gone. You have a strong mind and lots of willpower. Any other normal person would kill themselves.

Get back in the gym and do what you can.

That's great, wishing you a speedy recovery from the surgery.

Got damn at that cut. You're tough op. Hope you have a quick recovery and a better quality of life.