Can you please clarify when you say you had MILD? I saw a pain specialist who described the procedure as very well suited to help with the pain from my lumbar stenosis/ligamentum flavum thickness and told me it was done in the office and involved scraping away/thinning the ligament. He also told me most patients are going back to normal activity within a day or two and that healing time was minimal because the procedure is about as invasive than getting an epidural shot. What you describe -- 6 to 8 weeks to heal! -- sounds nothing like this.

The doc I saw is an anesthesiologist and has done more than 100 of these procedures. Could you please tell me what kind of physician you saw, and could you please tell me a bit more about what you experienced undergoing the procedure? I am not a candidate for any kind of spine surgery (have severe osteoporosis) or ablation or steroid injections and am considering MILD. But what you described doesn't really match was I was told by my doc.