back surgery
 

who here has ever had back surgary? lower or upper? did it help you or make no difference?
i just got out of the hospital tuesday night after being hauled in with so much lower back pain they had to put me on (morfean) just to get me out of my house. mulitple x-rays and 2 MRI's have concluded i have 2 herniated disks one of which is crushing my siatic nerve down my left leg. just from the nerve being pinched my left leg has lost roughly 60% of motor ability. im set to have the back surgary tuesday mornin august 3rd. everyone express your thoughts on this.

Wish you the best.. i would of seen accupressure or puct dr or a chriopractor.. i saw the chriopactor after i was schedual for my surgery so glad i did.. but my disk was buldging.. i had dilaten ?? thats a really good pain killer ( 6 -8 times stronger than morfean)

Talk to No Problem....hes had a good deal done and can tell you all about it.

been doin the cyropractor 3 days a week for 6 weeks and havent gotten any reliefe

Id think that could make it worse

First surgery at 17 on L-3,L-4 and L-4,L-5... Second one at 22, three days after my wedding, L-3,L-4, L-4,L-5 and L-5,S-1... Third at 31 on L-4,L-5 and L-5,S-1...

Cant feel touch on my left leg anymore from scar tissue and surgery damage, but that happened only after the third surgery. Have to be careful or I am laid up for days...

Do the surgery, you have to to function... Might try a steriod injection, that kept me from having a surgery at 28... Bought me 3 more years...

Holy shit man, stay the hell away from those retards... Here, let me twist you and crack your back with a ruptured disk... Should make it better...:argh:

Thatz sad!!!!!!!:humm:

I would not get back surgery unless the pain is so great you can't function and you have exhausted all other options. My wife had back surgery 2 years ago after a accident at work. She had a lumbar spinal fusion. Which required 3 disk removed and replaced with steel cages and two steel rods put up the side of her spine. During the surgery the surgeon made a mistake and got one of the cages off center crushing the nerve down her left leg leaving it mostly unusable. After the second surgery to fix the mistake in 24 hours when we asked for a explanation from the doctor and attorneys to why this mistake was made we where told that its just the risk of back surgery and that its not that uncommon. She is 27 now and on permanent disability. I don't want to scare you but if it was me I would save surgery for a last resort. You will have to change your entire life style and learn how to mange the pain. From watching your weight and it will pile on with a back injure, to learning your limitations how much you can lift how far you can walk, what kind of bed you sleep on, and what kind of vehicle you drive. Try to stay off the pain killer they will make you hurt worse in the long run.

Nothing like having a bone cracker take a ruptured disc and making it worse.....:argh::argh:

I've got a blown L4,5 & S-1 & every now and again it flares up, when it 1st blew I was over in the UAE and spent 3 days drugged out of my mind laying on a cot in a tent....was over 100 yards to the bathroom so I pissed in bottles and did not eat for 3 days...

The VA had one of 2 guys certified in the McKenzie Institute therapy and it's saved me from going under the knife for a few years now... The McKenzie Institute - Welcome to the McKenzie Institute International

Once you are cut on it will never stop, pick and choose extremly carefully & don't go to any old hack wit a knife....