Sure sorry it took me so long to get back been sick! My hardware has come apart ! Screws are now in nerves which the pain is overwhelming! My spines is a mess! My Dr says the surgery was a failure ! I need to have my hardware replace and they want to put a rod in my spine and more hardware in the bottom of my back with the out come of not a 50 percent I'll not be able to walk again. I can not wrap my brain around that possibility! I'm in severe pain as of now but I can walk! I almost didn't make it through the first surgery. I'm scared to death with the fear I have now I would not make it through the one they want to do now. I hope yours was a success! I hope you have a speedy recovery as well! Keep me up dated please!

Machel, could you share why you wouldn’t have anymore hardware? I am getting ready for another round of it after 15 years.

I will try and look it up. Thank you I'm so sorry you've been through all that. Thank god I do have insurance. I have tricare.I'm seeing a pain Dr at the Florida pain medicine and I'm not happy at all!! He has cut my med down each time and I'm now hurting so much. I've tried it all I've been going through this since 1999 I have had a fusion and my hardware has come undone I also tell me I need more surgery and more hardware which I will never ever do again that you for the info will check it out

MachelScroggins Thompson,
So sorry that you are having to deal with with these medical problems. I would really like to be able to wave a magic wand. What I can and will do is pray for you. I have faith that God will calm your nerves and help you deal with everything during this period. May He guide your surgeon's hands as they operate on you and relieve you of the awful pain that you're suffering. At the conclusion of the surgery I ask that He work with you through your recovery and assist you as you take each and every step. Have a blessed day 🙏

Tampa Pain Relief Ctr on Hillsborough; used to be really good. Can't tell you if it still is , since they lost their top 2 doctors ,at the same time all those new regulations on PM started. I made the mistake of following Dr. G. , because I felt like I had the right to keep my doctor , but the new St. Pete office he works out of now; is so incredibly bad , with the office manager treating you like total scum , if you do not have insurance; it shadows any care you would receive from him anyway. I will most likely take the $2000 loss it took to switch to that place ; just to try and scrape what little sense of self worth I have left , before it's too late; and go back to TPR .. Don't make the same mistake I made , especially if you already lost everything , and can not afford to pay another surgerical procedure out of pocket; or you are pretty screwed, if you go to that place.. Even if the doctors are good , the office manager will just override whatever they perscribe as a violation of office policy ; while she is degrading you in front of everyone within earshot at the same time.