Why Can Lower Back Surgery Cause You To Go Blind?
One of my loved ones is battling terrible sciatica, but she is scared of getting the surgery because there is a risk of blindness associated with the procedure that I suppose comes with any lower back surgery. Have you known of anyone who did go blind from lower back surgery? Do you know why blindness is a possibility in that kind of surgery? Is the blindness anything which can be fixed through further surgery? Thank you so much.
December 5th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
Lower Back surgery may cause Blindness because of the damage to the posterior optic nerve—likely caused by the heavy blood loss during the spine surgery.
These are the cases for your reference : http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.ht…http://www.rmf.harvard.edu/case-studies/…
Do go through the last question in the analysis part in the second link.
Best of luck.
December 5th, 2009 at 6:58 pm
i had lower back surgery about 6 months ago. The chances of this happenening are very very slim…tell you loved one not to worry… Hope all goes well!!
December 5th, 2009 at 11:44 pm
This is new to me. Don’t know of anyone who went blind for a lower back surgery.
December 6th, 2009 at 3:09 am
The risk of blindness is very very slim. I would just say that low back surgery is only 60% successful and often requires follow up surgeries in the future. The pain either moves up or down from the original site. Chiropractic is very successful with this condition and the best part is NO RISK OF BLINDNESS.