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potty245
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16 Nov 2009, 11:56 am

does anyone have scoliosis?

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16 Nov 2009, 2:07 pm

My niece does. She has been wearing a brace since she was about 2 years old.

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16 Nov 2009, 3:11 pm

I do, but it's mild enough to where I never had to wear a brace.

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16 Nov 2009, 4:27 pm

potty245 wrote:

does anyone have scoliosis?

hehe. yes. it's probably not a laughing matter. it's from carrying too much books around, I think, and probably bad posture, too. i didn't listen to my mother. i tilt to the left. do you?

edit: it's quite mild.

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16 Nov 2009, 11:48 pm

I have it but I never notice it. The doctor tried to get me to wear a brace, only at night. I stayed awake in it for four hours every night before I took it off. I would never have been able to sleep in that thing.

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17 Nov 2009, 8:11 am

i have it, I had 2 operations and now have rods in to keep me straight as possible

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18 Nov 2009, 11:32 am

I have it but I got surgery to straighten my back over 5 years ago. I still have the rods inside me because there's no need to remove them and the fusion turned out very well.

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18 Nov 2009, 2:50 pm

it will be 8 years in december since I had my rods put in

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21 Nov 2009, 1:29 am

I have it but it doesn't bother me AT ALL other than my mom pestering me about it.

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16 Dec 2009, 5:56 am

Yes, my spine curves at the bottom just a little bit.

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11 Feb 2014, 7:37 pm

ADoyle wrote:

I do, but it's mild enough to where I never had to wear a brace.

Ditto, although it's gotten a little worse since I started high school. Might have something to do with all of those dumbbells-- er, textbooks, we have to haul around in our backpacks.

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12 Feb 2014, 8:28 am

No, but I would imagine I'm not (or wasn't far off) a diagnosis especially as a teenager. I would have been bullied anyway but this is what put me on the 'radar' because I could not stand straight and walked with my head facing the ground. I had a massive growth spurt and was 6'5" in Junior High but looked 6" at most due to the slouching.

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21 Feb 2014, 9:56 pm

only to a very minor extent, it gives me aches every now and then and some people notice I don't have perfect "posture"

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24 Feb 2014, 8:43 am

I have a very minor one, so it was only recognized on accident, when the end of my spiral bones was inflamed, and I had an X-rax and Physiotherapy/Osteotherapy, to find the causes of the inflamation. They argued, that it might be a cause, why I get backaches around the shoulder area, when I do too much sitting and too less movement during week. As long as I care to do some sport/gymnastics, its ok. But they told me, that when I will actually have kids, I should avoid that typical "carrying the kid on the hipside", because that could worsen it.

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