Hello I spent the first year of my life in the hospital with bowel complications. When I was released I still had bowel complication until the age of 11 but was not as severe. After that I started having complication with emptying my bladder and not being able to produce sperm. So when I married me and my wife wanted to have children so I went and seen a doctor for the problems. I was 26 at the time when I found out I had tethered cord syndrom. The doctor told me I needed the surgery right away or my spinal cord would snap and I would me paralized. So the following week he performed the surgery. I never had any pain prior to the surgery but after the 9 and a half hour surgery and 3 weeks in the hospital I ended up a diffrent person. I have severe pain in the back of my left leg that burns in the muscle along with shock pains through out both legs and threw my feet I also have severe pain in my tailbone. And after the surgery I have no feeling in my genatal or rectum area I use a strait cathiter to urinate and use my incontinence training to perform a bowel movement. I no longer work and I just found out after two short years that my cord has retethered and I'm afraid that if I do the surgery again I could end up worse than I am already. Please let me know of any doctor that would be willing to review the OP report because I think there were mistakes made in my first surgery. Please let me know because I was a very athletic person who was working to become a police officer. And now all my dreams were flushed down the drain. I can bareley get out of bed now and I also take many medications for pain. I hope that this message can also help other people realize how this surgery can effect there lives in a negative way if they are not carefull when choosing the doctor that will perform the surgery.