Thanks Queenie. Was your husband afraid of getting paralyzed or made worse? I answered another girl that I am leaning towards the ablation, only because of the risk of infection with implanting the device, then running the wires to my back. If they accidentally get displaced - it’s another surgery to replace them. Another infection risk, etc.

This guy will be doing it in the office, does do a lot of them. Takes ~1 hr.

From I’m what I’m starting to read, the worse that can happen is I won’t get any results.

Why did he need two? And how did the need for the second one present? Does pain/stiffness return?

I’m afraid, that because I basically don’t due anything when I don’t work - which is in 3 month spurts, then nothing until I decide on another assignment, that my core muscles are weak. I just got a PT referral with building my core as my goal.

I can’t walk 75 feet without stopping and having to lean on my knees - bending my back forward. Pushing the shopping cart is a life-saver. Getting out of my husband’s car (Model Y Tesla), so its SUV like, is still difficult. Forget my car. About 4” off the ground. Unless I can fling the door all the way open, put both legs on ground, and rock my butt to finally get the momentum to get up out of the thing, I’m stuck!! I love my car, but I think I need a big, tall SUV.

How does your husband feel or know when it’s time for him to get another ablation? Anything like I’ve described? Is he still working?

I’m a pediatric nurse practitioner. During my last assignment (1/24-3/24), also the first since surgery, I was like an old lady. I would sit in the exam room to talk before examining the kid. There were a few times I could not get back up. Joked how my body wasn’t used to ME/Canada winters, coming from FL! No-one said anything. That was scary - the never knowing.

The good thing was they rented me a Grand Cherokee LTD 4XE (electric plug in). The thing was awesome - climbed up into it and slid down out of it! Again, I think my rag-top is gonna have to be a thing in the past - unless the ablation works.

Does DH deal with this? Does he get sciatica? That is much more rare. It’s the pain of going from standing to sitting and vice versa. And inability to walk far or fast that are driving me crazy.

Right now I am sitting in my Svago zero-recliner with the massage and heat functions going. My feet are higher than my head. This works, because it takes pressure off my back. Forget sitting on the couch or most other chairs.

I go through mattresses like no-one else. We have a king adjustable bed, so 2 twin-xl’s. Loved it until recently. It’s a hybrid, so has coils, foam 14” deep. When I sleep on my side, I hurt so much when I roll over, and God forbid I have to get up at the same time, I drag myself across the small dresser I use as an end table, then stumble to large dresser, ‘owwwing’ the whole way to bathroom!

Past 2 nights I slept in the guest room on a regular mattress - huge difference! I paid a lot for our current mattresses, ~18 mo ago. Second set. Still love the base which also does zero gravity, or raises head/feet, massages.

Please let me know if your DH has tried furniture that works!! Even out by the pool, I have 2 zero recliners - ‘BJ’s specials’!! Nothing fancy.

Sorry to go on and on!
Karen