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I suppose I've had a more positive experience than most with back problems, so I'll post too. I haven't gone as far as a spinal fusion, but I have had an L4/L5 microdiskectomy. Like a burst jelly donut, essentially; an extrusion (e: the hernia, couldn't remember the word) was impinging on the nerve canal behind it and causing severe sciatica symptoms. Essentially all the surgeon did was open a line down my back, remove a small 'window' of vertebrae bone, and scoop out the now-excess material, relieving the pressure. After surgery I was bedridden for two days, excrutiatingly-slowly mobile for a week, and slowly mobile for another month before I'd essentially returned to a healthy (if not especially strong, lift-strength-wise) back. It aches easily if I sit badly for too long, but not much worse than that. Pretty sedentary lifestyle though, so I don't have any input on the sports side (though fwiw I can ride a bicycle perfectly fine). Spinal fusion may be in the future if any of the remaining disk material degenerates any further, but so far so good. Ciaphas fucked around with this message at 18:06 on May 8, 2019 |
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