And the Verdict is...

Yippee, hooray, YES! The bone growth inside my titanium rods looks AWESOME, exactly as it should. I get to continue weaning out my brace and strengthening my back muscles by doing so. We will not start PT as that could actually make me backslide a bit he said, but I can swim and walk and do a treadmill or elliptical machine. So we are looking into getting a YMCA membership. I am down to 1 Vicodin a day and as soon as I use those up we are going to try Ultram. I have tried to go med-free a few days and every time I seem to be in quite a bit of pain, but 1 Vicodin is doing it for me so that is good. We'll see how the Ultram goes and go from there. He was surprised how much arthritis I have in my SI joints (think the joint inside each buttock) and I am having more pain in those areas than in my disc area (woo hoo!) I never knew you could see arthritis on Xrays and MRIs but it showed right up he said.

Anyway, great news! I have my next appt on May 19 which will be 6 months post op and I should be able to be pretty much at normal by then. If I have pain still, we will do some PT, otherwise I can get back to my regularly-scheduled crazy life!

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  1. KimFebruary 20, 2008 at 2:04 PM

    Yayyyyyyyyy! Praise God! Praying for continued healing and good spirits for you.

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