In 2018 I had a 2 level cage in my neck in 2. My neck did very well, coming lost movement in my right are which prompted the surgery, I haven’t had any problems with my neck, but for the last couple of years, I do get twins of pain and stiffness here and there.
In 2019 I have three level cage in my S1, L5 and L4, which I had a horrible time recovering I think because the anesthesia that that’s surpassed took me about a year to get rid of the pain so I was like pain-free for maybe being one to two years, then things started happening again pain so forth so I my handle that and now to the present I have severe degeneration disease on my L2NL3, which causes a thigh, pain, weakness, and my legs and of course, the pain in the spine area which I’m dealing with now along with a Baker’s cyst in my right knee a lot of pain behind the knee and with the cyst swells I get severe pain from my thigh down to my ankle like in my bones I made it is gosh, awful painful and I usually get that at night if I overuse my leg during the day so I’m going through that but I do go with physical therapy, that said it usually takes about 8 weeks to recover from, he also gave me exercise exercises to keep my knee flexible and so forth and the exercise really does help so maybe talk to a PT and only wants me up and walking for 15 minutes at a time, I have figured out a routine and will add on as we go but for right now I have to be careful to not aggravate that Baker cyst ( as well as my lower back issues, no when to stop) I know it’s difficult but you only have like two sets maybe 10 to 20 repetitions and if you can do that, keep up with it because it’s very important to keep moving and keep building on the muscles that you might be weak in, so I’m 73 years old and getting old is a hard thing to do, but if I can get past this or to a point where I’m not having to limit as much things as I do have to now , I feel I’ll be doing pretty good . I wish you good luck on your journey and I hope everything works out and you find some relief.