My lumbar has a herniated disc and four bulging ones after heavy lifting on a job twenty years ago. Basically it took 18 years until someone accepted it wouldn't just go away and I got an MRI that showed the problem. Over the years I've been told to just stay mobile and it'll go away but with an actual diagnosis at 44yo the doc suggested spinal fusion.
It's working out well, I've been healing from op for two weeks now and most of the usual pain and nerve stuff is gone so very promising. But it takes six months to heal up and I won't know how well it worked for another year.
@karlboll damn that sucks, Hopefully that will buy you a few decades of not being in pain, but after a fusion, if you hurt it again it will be a lot worse. I pray that doesn't happen for you.
that's good. Sleeping better? When I messed up my back that was, by far, the worst part... just a constant pain that would try to prevent me from sleeping.
Currently I'm sleeping worse but it's been less than three weeks since surgery, I'm still healing from that. But as I like to say; At least it's a different pain, in a different place for different reasons.
Man at least you have yet to have your L4 vertebrae fracture twice. I got that part to heal, but my specialist doc was like.. "dude, in all seriousness, how? Are you in pain? Do I need to give you anything?!?"
I said no, as i'm not pain. I've become... comfortably numb.
Also I feel my knees, lower back, and neck.
It's working out well, I've been healing from op for two weeks now and most of the usual pain and nerve stuff is gone so very promising. But it takes six months to heal up and I won't know how well it worked for another year.
I said no, as i'm not pain. I've become... comfortably numb.