@annie1 Anne, I'm glad you got through your surgery. From here out, it just takes patience while you wait for your body to heal. When I had my spine surgery at Mayo, there was no recommendations for supplements to help nerves heal. That is a long process and may take a couple years. The experience that I can relate to that is that I had very irritated nerves from an epidural injection that caused a reaction with burning electric shock pain that went on for a couple months. That left me with a hand that was sensitive to heat and cold, and that took a year and a half to resolve. There is no difference now. I would think that the same things involved in good health such as a nutritious diet and exercise like walking will help you heal, and what ever your recommendations are for supplements for osteoporosis since you need to heal some bone. Walking will help get the oxygen distributed through your body and that helps healing.
Are you able to tell this early if there has been improvement in your pain and functioning? You still have inflammation now of course, so it may take a while.
@annie1 Anne, I'm glad you got through your surgery. From here out, it just takes patience while you wait for your body to heal. When I had my spine surgery at Mayo, there was no recommendations for supplements to help nerves heal. That is a long process and may take a couple years. The experience that I can relate to that is that I had very irritated nerves from an epidural injection that caused a reaction with burning electric shock pain that went on for a couple months. That left me with a hand that was sensitive to heat and cold, and that took a year and a half to resolve. There is no difference now. I would think that the same things involved in good health such as a nutritious diet and exercise like walking will help you heal, and what ever your recommendations are for supplements for osteoporosis since you need to heal some bone. Walking will help get the oxygen distributed through your body and that helps healing.
Are you able to tell this early if there has been improvement in your pain and functioning? You still have inflammation now of course, so it may take a while.
I still have throbbing calf muscles and cramping, of a different quality than presurgery which makes sleeping difficult if I happen to wake up and go to the bathroom etc or just wake up for some reason I can't really go back to sleep. Right now my legs are cramping up so I just got up instead of lying in bed. I was wondering if I can put some kind of CBD cream on areas that are cramping.
After my Cervical ADR, I developed major cramping in my feet and calves. My PCP gave me a med called Requip (sp) It works quite well most of the time. Good luck to you.
What is the name of that again ? They gave me Robaxin, but it is not working and also a semi opiod I think.
I have a big question, I have been getting rides in a car already, one week after my surgery and realize maybe that isn't smart, but I just got one today. I hope I'm not messing up my recovery. Can anyone answer that ? Also is it ok to pull in my Abs while sitting ?
After my Cervical ADR, I developed major cramping in my feet and calves. My PCP gave me a med called Requip (sp) It works quite well most of the time. Good luck to you.
In the name of that medication for the cramping. Also I don't know how much I should be sitting I read somewhere that I shouldn't sit more than 20 minutes in one position. So does that mean I have to be walking around constantly or lying in bed? My surgeon's office didn't tell me anything about that they just said listen to my body. Whatever that means but I've been reading other places not to sit more than 20 to 40 minutes in one position. I'll have to ask them on Monday
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Today my pain is back to a 10 as far as my symptoms of throbbing calf muscles. Discouraging.
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After my Cervical ADR, I developed major cramping in my feet and calves. My PCP gave me a med called Requip (sp) It works quite well most of the time. Good luck to you.
What is the name of that again ? They gave me Robaxin, but it is not working and also a semi opiod I think.
I have a big question, I have been getting rides in a car already, one week after my surgery and realize maybe that isn't smart, but I just got one today. I hope I'm not messing up my recovery. Can anyone answer that ? Also is it ok to pull in my Abs while sitting ?
In the name of that medication for the cramping. Also I don't know how much I should be sitting I read somewhere that I shouldn't sit more than 20 minutes in one position. So does that mean I have to be walking around constantly or lying in bed? My surgeon's office didn't tell me anything about that they just said listen to my body. Whatever that means but I've been reading other places not to sit more than 20 to 40 minutes in one position. I'll have to ask them on Monday