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Spine Health | Last Active: Jun 21, 2023 | Replies (46)
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I haven’t jumped on the serious medication yet and haven’t had the need to luckily.
I was told by another neurosurgeon that I wasn’t doing any nerve damage. He said I would know if I was doing nerve damage in which the paint would be quite painful.
I’m glad you trying alternate treatments! Keep working on the core and healthy diet.
I can’t believe how close I was to getting surgery - so close… I honestly read on forums and research so many articles and comments, the amount of positive outcomes vs negative outcomes from fusion is outstanding. My observations is about a less than 5-10% positive story rate.
I guess you hear about the negative stories more.
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How are things going these days?
I was doing better for a while then felt/heard my spine shift again. The left leg seems to have no ill affects now, but the lower back aches more and the right leg only allows me to stand for a few minutes and even walking has become a limited exercise, about 10 minutes before the pain forces me to stop. I did some personal testing on my walking. If I walk below 3.2 MPH the pain will come in about 10 minutes. Between 3.2 and 3.5 I can go about a mile. Over 3.5 I can get about 2 miles before I have to stop. That was all done on a treadmill.
I have finally gotten comfortable with the idea of moving forward with surgery, even though my new surgeon was pretty frank and said that eventually I will need additional surgery, because of my back adjusting to the new distribution of support. It may be 1 or it may be 10 years, but it will happen.
I am continuing to exercise and work on my weight and core. Unless there is some vast improvement with the conservative methods I will do the surgery just after the first of the year.