Thank you for your response. This is very helpful. Tomorrow will be my 1-year anniversary of having my Lower Spinal Back Fusion Surgery L4-S1. Like you I am in more pain than before. I have been on pain meds up until last weekend and they were not helping at all. My Surgeon wants me to go see a Pain Management doctor and I refuse to go after my 1st initial visit. They wanted to do the injections on me that I tried way before having my surgery and none of them worked. Since my surgery, my Surgeon has had me on Tramadol 50mg tablets 3 times a day (that are Opioids), and I was terrified to take them and slowly over time reduced the dosage myself and I was only taking a 1/2 a pill once a day along with two other prescriptions he gave to me Gabapentin 300mg Capsules (3 time's a day) and Cyclobenzaprine 10mg tablets for muscle spasms as often as needed.
In the beginning, before surgery he informed me I will not need to have physical therapy. But after a few months I asked him again and he informed me yes if I wanted to he will have me go to physical therapy. So I did it for 8 weeks and I was not feeling better at all. After I had physical therapy, the next day I would be in a lot more pain.
I ice my back everyday. Even when I sit still my lower back is hurting. It NEVER stops.
On my last appointment with my surgeon, I begged him to take out the equipment, that it hurts and I'm in worse pain than prior to surgery. He told me he could not do that. All of my equipment is Titanium. How do we go about getting the equipment removed? HELP PLEASE HELP!!!