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Not to intimidate you about the procedure, but it's fair that you hear all sides of the story. When I had mine done, the doc inserted the needle in my spinal cord and went to reach for the syringe that contained the medicine to attach to the needle and when he did, he accidentally hit the needle sticking out of my back and tore a hole in my spinal canal..... So instead of having a small hole the size of a needle, it was more of a laceration and it was HUGE!!!! The "spinal headache" is caused by spinal fluid leaking from the hole, so obviously I lost much more fluid than a regular procedure and almost died from the loss of spinal fluid. I became unconcious about 5 hours after the procedure, was rushed to the hospital and was given a blood patch where they replace the missing spinal fluid with your own blood. After an 18 hour coma I came to and vowed to never have surgery on my back again. NOW......I can honestly say that this was an "ISOLATED INCIDENT", as I have yet to hear of another horror story like this, so don't let it affect your decision making process. The Anestethiologist(sp?) that did it was great, he just screwed up and it cost me...big time! What pissed me off the most was that he denied the whole thing until I slapped a lawsuit on him and that's when his assistant confessed as to what happened and in turn, so did he. He was ready to settle out of court for an undisclosed sum of money, but all I wanted was an apology and an admission of guilt by him. Once he apologized, I completely dropped the lawsuit and payed my attorneys fee out of my own pocket. I didn't want his money, just the truth and an apology. Sorry this was so long, but I've wanted to share my only medical nightmare story for some time now. Thanks and good luck.
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