You've already developed significant opiate tolerance. You should find yourself a real chronic pain doc to get some help weaning. Likely you'll feed better.
Well it's in my neck so my head would have to be overweight. Everything else is below the problem. Not genetic but quite normal age-related degeneration that everyone has, just affects some more than others.
Nothing to indicate this as a direct cause, but I guess it can't have really helped the situation.
OK must be something slightly different from my problem then.
My pain prior to the surgery was beyond most painkillers. OTC stuff, forget it. When I was admitted to ICU, in the first 24 hours I had 3 bags of different IV painkillers - Tramal, Pethadine and Perfalgan, and 5 shots in my ass of Pethadine, nothing made any difference, I was really struggling.
Then finally they gave me the Morphine. That's a pretty big deal here, they have to make a special application to the ministry of health. That worked, I was on it through IV for just over 48 hours up to the surgery. I was out of my head, fucking weirdest dreams ever. Back on it for a few hours after the surgery but then I had to stop because the side effects were starting to pile up and can get quite nasty.
So they fused the vertebrae, so why does it need the Ti discs? Replacement for the old Ti cages?
Why were you in the hospital for days prior to a simple 2-level ACDF? That's so much wasted money.
Why get the mesh + fusion if you could just get titanium/polymer disc replacements with no fusion?There are no cages, just the titanium mesh that goes in the place where the disc used to be.
Why were you in the hospital for days prior to a simple 2-level ACDF? That's so much wasted money.
If he was having significant motor weakness, then the surgeon shouldn't have sat on him for multiple days and risk permanent spinal cord injury. There's no good reason for someone to be admitted for multiple days simply for pain management for a chronic problem. That's ridiculous. Perhaps there is more to the story.
I’m guessing in Dubai they don’t have healthcare dictated by insurance companies like in the US. Also I’m assuming if he was in the slave class, he probably gets no procedure.
If he was having significant motor weakness, then the surgeon shouldn't have sat on him for multiple days and risk permanent spinal cord injury. There's no good reason for someone to be admitted for multiple days simply for pain management for a chronic problem. That's ridiculous. Perhaps there is more to the story.