Medtronic Infuse Victim Blames Surgeon and Medtronic

In July 2013 I had back surgery L4&L5. Was told by surgeon that it was an unavoidable surgery, as I'd tried everything else to alleviate pain. During surgery I felt like something dropped on my left knee. I saw white spots before my eyes and pain was excruciating! I awoke to !y left leg swollen grotesquely from my foot to my groin. In recovery I asked what happened to my leg, Dr told me nothing happened in or ..the meds made me think this. I screamed my leg is killing me, he said it was the pump that prevents blood clots that was uncomfortable.... My family could see the leg was enormous. Dr. Da d sometimes this happens during surgery and it would go away in two days! To make a long story short Medtronic cafe and bone growth protein had been used in my back off label. I was discharged from hospital against my and gpfamilies wishes two days following surgery. I was told by them there was no medical reason to keep me. They refused to do MRI cscan or x-ray if my leg. I was home two days when I was found near death in my bed at home!

in feb 2001 i went to a dr.in kentucky to get help with neck and low back pain,i saw this dr once and he said that i was going to need surgery on both.i was in so much pain,headaches.i was sceduled for neck surgery in feb 2001.i didnt see the dr.again til the time i was been ready for surgery,he exsplained to me that he was going to take out 2 disk in my neck and fuse it togather,i didnt know anything was going to be replaceing were he was taking out.to make a long story short i have not for all these years recovered from this,the pain is worse and i have to live with this,in sept 2001 i also was told from the same dr that the problem i was haveing with my neck would be better after a year,and that i was needing to go ahead and have back surgery to repair it,on sept i went in for surgery on my back,at that time i had blood work,exrays and i was hooked up to so many wires i couldnt move,as i waited for the dr to come in and talk to me,all i was told from him that he was going to take a bone from my hip and fuse it to help my back,i again was in so much pain til i was willng to see if it would help me.there was a nurse there and she told me that i shouldnt do this because it wasnt aproved for the surgery and seem to be angry,i started asking question and was told it was too late to change my mind,and the only problem was that this wasnt fda approved,i didnt understand what that ment than,and was already drugged and had been hooked up to many wires til i couldnt move,i walked in the hospital with a limp and was wheeled out,for 9 months i couldnt walk,i couldnt swollow food or drink without getting choked or strangled,i made a apointment to see this dr after surgery and complained to him about this and he stated that he done me great deal and i could see someone else if i wonted to,i couldnt for my insurance wouldnt let me,so i suffered,after a year i wasnt good i was doing much worse,had lost 60 pounds couldnt eat,couldnt walk and when i got to his office i was told that he no longer pratice there and had left the country,i couldnt understand,got no right answers and than i went to get my medical reports and was told that they would be sent to me.on his report stated that i had inproved and he was releaseing me,but the fact was i couldnt walk and i had lost so much weight til i was dieing,i have suffred all these years to know that this dr has not only cheated me but so many here in my area and has goton away with this,the truth was that he was preforming surgery on people that he wasnt to do,placeing this equpment in our body that he had gotton off the internet and wasnt fda aproved,and was fired and run out of town,i have been trying to find him just to ask him why would he do a young woman of 38 years old that way just for money and the fun of practice putting this inside our body.after all these years i have put his name in the computer to find him and i was right he is doing a pratice in the artics and the same surgeries,i might have stated to much on here but i am victum of a crime from the dr.that done the surgery and the buisness medtronic that had paid him so much money to preform these surgeries on us people to see how this would do,i dont know about any of you but i was 38 and i am now 51 and i know with age i should have been better by now but worse is my statement.if i would have been told that this wasnt aproved by the state,government or the hospital,i sure wouldnt had this done,but i wasnt told til 5 min before my back surgery.,and to find out a year or so later that it wasnt and he was fired,just wasnt right,thank you for lissioning to me,thank you doctor for taking my life instead of helping me.