@lisalucier
Thank you, Lisa. My symptoms are mostly right sided. My foot and toes are mostly numb on the top. I get stabbing pain in my right buttock and occasionally in the left side as well. Pain shoots down my outer leg to my foot, and recently to my pinky toe. I've had L4-5 hemi-laminectomy (2023) and fusion of L4-5 in 2024. My right leg always aches. And I've been getting charley horse cramps in my feet and ankles, sometimes up my calf since November. I've also had pins and needles primarily down from my back down my right side. My left foot has recently started to ache and occasionally I get the pins and needles down that leg as well. But, it is mostly the right side that is bothering me, even though that latest MRI indicates that it's the left side that's mostly involved. And my balance is also difficult, but I'm in PT for that.
My activity consists of walking 3 times a week, chair yoga 2 times a week, mat stretches 3-4 times a week. I'm doing the exercises I was taught by my PT after my second surgery. I was in PT for a year.