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Completed spinal fusion surgery, residual hot nerve spasms linger
After one year of severe spasms with crippling nerve pain ,due to 3 impinged nerve roots . My surgeon agreed to a spinal L4 ,L5,S1 fusion
surgery .
After 4 weeks of recovery I feel elated to be able to sit for more than a few minutes , perform my daily constitutionals without crying out in pain , VICTORY !!!!!
However I still experience hot spasms within a few minutes sitting in a car .
Do any of you have residual nerve spasms !!
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Car seats are notoriously terrible. I bought a gel seat and a back roll and recline the seat somewhat. Like you, sitting is my biggest problem but the cushions help enormously.
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2 ReactionsAnything soft is out of the question for me, the firmer the better!!!!
Also sitting erect is a must for me , or lying flat with a pillow roll under my knees
I cut a firm piece of foam from a children's surfboard into approximately 14x11 rectangles covered with material which have become my most important accessary ...... on chairs and most importantly on my car seat
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Ps. you can always put a softer cushion on top it !
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1 ReactionL2,L3,L4 fusion in 2012 , and I still get the odd nerve and muscle spasm - not fun but easily managed with the riht meds
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Hi, @jmc50 - wondering if you are asking @heimofranz how they are doing today?
2 years after my severe car accident, my lumbar spine was completely broken top to bottom, I was able to have my L4-L5 fused. The surgery was 2 years ago now but I am still in serious pain. I am able to walk sometimes but at other times I have numbness and shooting pain down my leg again, along with severe lower back and hip pain.
I just read that this is quite common and they have finally found out the reason for it. They said that the muscle that wraps around the spine gets damaged during the fusion process. We go into physiotherapy and the chiropractor and everything else, but nobody can deal with that deep down in our core. They deal with the outside muscle layers, but not the inside muscle around the spine. That is what holds the spine in place and holds us upright and keeps us from having pain. The reason we don’t feel better is because that muscle has atrophied because when we have our initial pain that muscle is used to send signals to our brain about the pain. When we continue to have so much pain, muscle was slowly atrophy so that it cannot feel the pain anymore which means it will stop working for us. . I read a lot on it. It sounds valid. I just don’t know what to do about it now.
Does anybody have any suggestions?