My Surgical Procedure

Here is my understanding of what Dr. Fiegenbaum will do for me. He will deflate my cyst, he will plug the opening of the cyst with my own fat. He will wrap the nerve root with Duraguard(twice) and suture it all in place. Luckily, I have a menigeal divirticulum, which means the cyst itself is devoid of nerves, which is good, a true Tarlov cyst has nerves running through it, which makes it much harder to operate on (having to separate nerves from cyst). There are still risks, as there are nerves all around the cyst, so he has to be very careful not to injure any of the surrounding nerves. Perhaps this is the reason there are so few neurosurgeons in the United States that even want to tackle this type of surgery, it is such a risky procedure.

On a Yahoo health board, a member describes the procedure as "cysts are like balloons. They are not hard. Imagine a balloon being deflated and then wrapped so it cannot inflate again." Dr. Fiegenbaum CANNOT remove this cyst, it is part of me, I believe a part of my dural tube. I may have said this before, but I believe Dr. F said that I have had this since birth, similar to spina bifida and some trauma (for me lifting a too heavy piece of lumber) caused trama to my spine and started the cyst to start filling up with cerebral spinal fluid, thus inflating the cyst so big that it is pressing on all my nerves. My surgery is at 1:00 on the 18th of Dec.