Hu John - thank you for the welcome and your reply. Saw the dr 9 days after procedure to remove staples and follow up. He did not make much of it. Kind of blew it off tell you the truth. He just said my surgery couldn’t have gone any better and everyone is different. I don’t see him again til April 4th.
I still have pain in the lower back area. The right side pain is there but not as intense.
Maybe I’m being unreasonable with thinking I should be feeling better only 2 weeks out. It’s just frustrating. Can’t bend, can’t twist. I’m hesitant to drive.
Maybe I just need to give myself some grace. Time is the healer they say.
I just want reassurance that what I’m feeling is normal - the pain, stiffness in lower back etc. Thank you.

I did have fairly good results to the only Vertiflex I have done so far and it has been about a year. Having said that tho.... I was ready to have a couple more inserted and when I tried to make an appt. with my pain doctor I was informed that he no longer was with the pain doctors I was seeing and he was establishing a new practice in an area 4 hours away. In my state (New Mexico) I could not find any other doctors doing the Vertiflex procedures. I now will be seeing my original surgeon on the 31 of March. I will report to you after that visit and tell you what my surgeon says about my condition. I am in a lot of pain but I think it is due to the other areas in my lower back that needed two more Vertiflexs. BTW I had the Vertiflex procedure done because my surgeon did not want to do any more surgeries and referred me to the pain doctor.