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Post lumbar spinal fusion with nerve pain in knee/leg
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@shelly1228 I am also currently dealing with post nerve pain after a lumbar procedure. I read a article from National Institutes of Health about how sacroiliac joint pain should be suspected in early buttock or leg pain after a lumbar corrective surgery. It is very interesting and may be worth you trying to look into. It definitely wouldn't hurt. I am currently on this same journey & I don't like having to take the medicine either. I pray you get some relief! Also, my neurosurgeon suggested to use aspercreme with lidocaine on the back & along the nerve pathway causing the pain & it does help some.
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I feel as though the lumbar fusion and the months (almost a year) afterwards were great. Pain was reduced significantly. My comfort level with what I felt I could do got better. I don’t have an “AHA” moment when I felt things started to change for the worse. No falls. No traumas. It just seemed like there was a turning point. Not a plateau, as I would have been ok with that, but rather certain and steady regression. On a medication side note - I was diagnosed as an adult with ADHD. I started taking Adderall in 2017, prior to many of the compounding DDD issues. I NEVER forget to take it. A few months ago, I did forget to take it in the morning. By late afternoon, the nerve pain was at least 2x, maybe even 3x worse, and I have a pretty decent pain tolerance. After asking several neuros about this, one finally discovered a study that confirms that adderall/amphetimines can have a significant affect in lowering nerve pain. So I wonder how long my Adderall has been possibly been masking the changes over the past few months.
However, I am extremely grateful for now being on Adderall not only for its intended use, but the utterly unbelievable help it’s given me with my nerve pain. It’s truly difficult to quantify the reduction in nerve pain that Adderall has given me.