Thank you for the quick response.
The concern when going into the second surgery was a dura tear. The rods broke in the thoracic region. The surgeon found the dura was missing from the area where the rods broke. He had to remove the vertebrae from that area and place a “patch sealed with fibram adhesive over the area with the area. Used bone grafts to rebuild the area of the spine and installed new hardware. I now have MS symptoms with no definitive acknowledgement of such. I am wondering if the unprotected nerves could have suffered enough trauma to cause me to have these issuses. I am still working but this condition makes it very diffucult. The neurologist that I have seems to think that it is all in my mind. I really do not know what to do. I feel I may further injure myself try to maintain my work status pushing my body when it is not able to. They are telling me that it can not be MS beause I do not have sizable white matter on the current MRI of the brain and spine. EMG normal. Those were the only tests they have performed before telling me to do physical therapy and to go to the Mayo clinic. This is not an ordinary/ normal spinal issue. I just do not know what to do and what to do from here. I would be able to send you some of the records and the surgeons operative notes if need be.
Again, Thanks for your input.
