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Q: leaking after spinal stenosis surgery
asked by: lnlral97 on January 8th, 2009
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looking hello everyone my name is Laura and i am new here i have been looking for answers to my questions and my surgeon has just kind of blew me off i underwent a microdysectomy surgery to shave sum of my spine to make the spinal stenosis go away on November 21,2008 since then my left side is much better but when i cough,sneeze,blow my nose, or move the wrong way fluid starts to come out of my back i went to the hospital on Christmas and they ran test but they said everything was ok except for now i have arthritis throughout the lumbar spine and that there is mild degenerative bony changes about the sacroiliac joints bilaterally but i am not sure what that means if there is anyone out there that can help me i would really appreciate it very much cause it is kind of worrying me and i also have to have an mri Saturday at 5p.m. thanks so much Laura
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littleonefb
replied on January 9th, 2009
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You should not be leaking any kind of fluid this long after surgery.

Do you have any headaches with this?

Do you have a fever, even a low grade fever?

What kind of tests did they do?

Your spinal surgeon should not be blowing this off.

Hopefully the MRI will give you some answers to why this fluid is leaking from you incision site.

If you have headaches, it could be from a small dura leak.

good luck and let us know how you are and what you find out.

Fran
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