Anonymous wrote:is this dr randal woodward of the nebraska spine ctr you speak of......its me again the dr hain patient.....after 6months on my neck surgery im starting to have problems again....it doesnt help that i have carpo tunnel in both hands and tendonitis in the shoulder and bicep but im starting to get some of the same symptoms like before and flare ups in my neck....i tried to go see dr. lohdia and he refused to even see me for a second opinion.....so i just wanted to confirm dr woodward is the one im finding via google before i make the call to see if he can help. thanks so much!
I had a c/6-c/7 spinal fusion in February of 2010 performed at Midwest Neuro Surgery by Dr. Lodhia. I'm an over all healthy 37 year old. The hospital stay was short. 23 hrs. The staff was pretty cool after post op, but there were a couple that were rude as heck. My room had a problem with the thermostat so I pretty much froze my butt off all night at 64 degrees. I asked for another room as the thermostat wouldn't work, but they declined even though there were 20+ rooms empty. My husband wasn't too thrilled either and was on a short fuse by the time we left.
At first I thought everything went pretty well as far as surgery. I went back for a follow up and all seemed ok, still a bit of pain (Lodhia said it's expected for up to a year.) Went for next visit and explained I was still in pain and I wasn't even getting 3 hours of restless tossing and turning sleep at night; they wouldn't prescribe anything. Suggested Melatonin so I tried that.....nothing changed. My next visit he said all was healing nicely and I could stop wearing the bone growth stimulator even though it wasn't fully healed and I was a  smoker. I stopped wearing the bone growth stimulator and within a couple weeks things got worse. I was starting to slowly ease back into the original pain I started with. He did another image and said it looks as if it has stopped healing. We may need to do the surgery again. Come back in 5 months. Sent away with nothing for pain control. Not only was I ticked, but my husband was furious they had left me in pain like that. AND not to mention; they aren't very good at returning phone calls.
Lodhia did a lower lumbar on my aunt a week after I had mine and within days she was in the ER rushed with severe pain. I can't say anymore on her issue, but I will say she will not refer anyone to him and has begged me not to let him do my second surgery, along with my husband demanding the same.
Lodhia did a spinal fusion on the Med Assistant at my physicians office. She was in the same boat I am in now and just had the surgery for her 2nd time. Imagine that!
Needless to say I sought after a 2nd opinion. MRI redone, CT redone. Sent to pain management (AGAIN) and they want to put me on blood pressure meds and anti depressants. Imagine that |expletive|. I have low blood pressure already, now they say since my blood pressure runs low be careful when standing up as i may faint? Seriously? Now we did a nerve block for the 2nd time, worked for a week and poof; right back in the same pain. Yet again, no one can even just ease the pain a little bit just so I can at least sleep? With the most recent report of abuse on pain meds and the overdose deaths of over 14,000 in 2008 alone I suppose I can understand, but if they look at my record and history I only use them when in extreme pain; I did not abuse them in any way. I would like to use them all day, but I know it would make it harder to control post-op pain so I was only taking a half a pain pill before bed just so i could actually rest (which helps immensely on someones psychological aspect.) Pain management said I definitely need to do the surgery again as the first one didn't take because Lodhia took me off the bone growth stimulator too soon. Yes, those were their words. Being I'm a smoker, he should have left the bone growth stimulator on until it was fully healed.
Another aunt had Dr. Hain do the same surgery on her (smoker and all) and within 2 weeks she was back at work and only taking Advil. (SHE is the one who referred me to  Dr. Hain.
Needless to say it's now been over a year since Lodhia performed surgery. I'm officially right back where I started in the first place and honestly I feel worse than before (maybe because it's been this way since October of 2009 and it's now April of 2012.) I can't hold my head up for very long, pain is intense and i can't vacuum or fold laundry. My home has gone to shambles, I cant' work. Yet again; nothing for pain.
It has been over a year since surgery. I can't take much more of it. I am only waiting until my daughter is on summer break from school because I won't be able to drive for a while and she isn't old enough to. Then she can help me with things around the house so I can take plenty of time this summer and heal properly and definitely going to redo the surgery.
I would NOT recommend Lodhia, but that is my personal opinion and personal bad experience. I think Dr. Hain is going to be my surgeon of choice this time around.
[quote="Anonymous"]is this dr randal woodward of the nebraska spine ctr you speak of......its me again the dr hain patient.....after 6months on my neck surgery im starting to have problems again....it doesnt help that i have carpo tunnel in both hands and tendonitis in the shoulder and bicep but im starting to get some of the same symptoms like before and flare ups in my neck....i tried to go see dr. lohdia and he refused to even see me for a second opinion.....so i just wanted to confirm dr woodward is the one im finding via google before i make the call to see if he can help. thanks so much![/quote]
I had a c/6-c/7 spinal fusion in February of 2010 performed at Midwest Neuro Surgery by Dr. Lodhia. I'm an over all healthy 37 year old. The hospital stay was short. 23 hrs. The staff was pretty cool after post op, but there were a couple that were rude as heck. My room had a problem with the thermostat so I pretty much froze my butt off all night at 64 degrees. I asked for another room as the thermostat wouldn't work, but they declined even though there were 20+ rooms empty. My husband wasn't too thrilled either and was on a short fuse by the time we left.
At first I thought everything went pretty well as far as surgery. I went back for a follow up and all seemed ok, still a bit of pain (Lodhia said it's expected for up to a year.) Went for next visit and explained I was still in pain and I wasn't even getting 3 hours of restless tossing and turning sleep at night; they wouldn't prescribe anything. Suggested Melatonin so I tried that.....nothing changed. My next visit he said all was healing nicely and I could stop wearing the bone growth stimulator even though it wasn't fully healed and I was a  smoker. I stopped wearing the bone growth stimulator and within a couple weeks things got worse. I was starting to slowly ease back into the original pain I started with. He did another image and said it looks as if it has stopped healing. We may need to do the surgery again. Come back in 5 months. Sent away with nothing for pain control. Not only was I ticked, but my husband was furious they had left me in pain like that. AND not to mention; they aren't very good at returning phone calls.
Lodhia did a lower lumbar on my aunt a week after I had mine and within days she was in the ER rushed with severe pain. I can't say anymore on her issue, but I will say she will not refer anyone to him and has begged me not to let him do my second surgery, along with my husband demanding the same.
Lodhia did a spinal fusion on the Med Assistant at my physicians office. She was in the same boat I am in now and just had the surgery for her 2nd time. Imagine that!
Needless to say I sought after a 2nd opinion. MRI redone, CT redone. Sent to pain management (AGAIN) and they want to put me on blood pressure meds and anti depressants. Imagine that |expletive|. I have low blood pressure already, now they say since my blood pressure runs low be careful when standing up as i may faint? Seriously? Now we did a nerve block for the 2nd time, worked for a week and poof; right back in the same pain. Yet again, no one can even just ease the pain a little bit just so I can at least sleep? With the most recent report of abuse on pain meds and the overdose deaths of over 14,000 in 2008 alone I suppose I can understand, but if they look at my record and history I only use them when in extreme pain; I did not abuse them in any way. I would like to use them all day, but I know it would make it harder to control post-op pain so I was only taking a half a pain pill before bed just so i could actually rest (which helps immensely on someones psychological aspect.) Pain management said I definitely need to do the surgery again as the first one didn't take because Lodhia took me off the bone growth stimulator too soon. Yes, those were their words. Being I'm a smoker, he should have left the bone growth stimulator on until it was fully healed.
Another aunt had Dr. Hain do the same surgery on her (smoker and all) and within 2 weeks she was back at work and only taking Advil. (SHE is the one who referred me to  Dr. Hain.
Needless to say it's now been over a year since Lodhia performed surgery. I'm officially right back where I started in the first place and honestly I feel worse than before (maybe because it's been this way since October of 2009 and it's now April of 2012.) I can't hold my head up for very long, pain is intense and i can't vacuum or fold laundry. My home has gone to shambles, I cant' work. Yet again; nothing for pain. :( It has been over a year since surgery. I can't take much more of it. I am only waiting until my daughter is on summer break from school because I won't be able to drive for a while and she isn't old enough to. Then she can help me with things around the house so I can take plenty of time this summer and heal properly and definitely going to redo the surgery.
I would NOT recommend Lodhia, but that is my personal opinion and personal bad experience. I think Dr. Hain is going to be my surgeon of choice this time around.