What is best to wear for clothing after a laminectomy?

Is it a minimal invasive procedure? On August 5th I had a Lamin foraminotomy L3-S1, went home same day. First few days were a little painful but was off pain meds in 5 days. I was walking with no assistance right away, but I am required to wear a back brace when I am up and about. I did have leakage from the wound for a bit (8 days) but that has stopped. I am 75 and avid Tennis player.
Good Luck and God Bless

I was the victim of a car crash 40+ years ago and have avoided back surgery, but the situation has changed. I have developed foot drop and have severe weakness in my right leg. The stenosis is listed as severe and I am scheduled for a lamenectomy L2-S1 in a few weeks.
I have a wife who is disabled and very reliant upon me. I have family that is planning on staying with us for 3 weeks post surgery to help. Do you think that time is adequate for me to be able to walk and perform most daily life activities without the need for help? I am 68 and overall in good shape, but the surgeon said I am risking permanent issues with the foot drop and weakness if I don't have the surgery.
Thanks for any insight you can provide

@mndan
You may need more help doing certain tasks after your surgery and may want to have family help you plan for additional help after 3 weeks depending on how surgery/recovery goes. I had fusion surgery and I was limited significantly in what I could do for months but since you are only getting laminectomy without fusion, you may be able to do a bit more than me. You just need to be careful with heavy lifting/twisting with recovery and take it easy since it is significant surgery.

Maybe hire someone after 3 weeks to help with your wife and things around the house while you continue your recovery. Definitely don’t delay the surgery if you are at risk of permanent nerve injury.

Thanks so much for your feedback. I am hoping for a fast recovery but know from personal experience that surgery outcomes can be very different than what is expected. I am meeting with a house-keeper next week, and am hiring someone to care for snow removal for the entire winter. I will try to err on the overly cautious side as I want this to be a success.

Four months ago, I had a Laminectomy,my left leg below the knee and both the bottom of my feet are numb. I went for a CT scan, and one screw is shifted.
The surgeon wants to do a revision,should I go for a second opinion or look for a different surgeon?

Get the second opinion first. If it's problematic it needs to be corrected.

Right now,I have to address the numbness in my feet. I do not know how to find a doctor who would fix the shifted screw.
I sent an email to a high-profile surgeon,he asked me the name of the surgeon who operated. After that, he is silent.

@leoann

Keep contacting orthopedic surgeons until one responds. You might do a Google search for the one who worked on you.

I had a laminectomy and microdecompression about 4 months ago. Since the surgery I have electric shock pain when I sit or lie. The surgeon wants to do a fusion which I do not want to do. Nothing helps with this type of pain so far. I am on gabapentin and cymbalta anyone have similar experience

Yes I had the electric shock pain! What it was signaling was the grinding between my vertebrae or the deterioration of the disc in my spine compressing on the nerve root. If you’re at that point, you need to have diffusion surgery sooner rather than later. When the pain stops. It means the nerves have been crushed to their demise And you will never be able to resurrect them. So my suggestion is you get into seeing an orthopedic surgeon immediately — maybe a different one if you don’t trust the first one— I had four—-have the fusion if they all agree. You need to have the hardware in there to hold the vertebrae apart from each other so they don’t weigh down and crushed the nerves. It can take up to 10 years to heal if your nerves have been crushed to their demise. I was at a highly qualified, neurosurgeon head of the department at Ucsd and he refused to do back surgery because he had seen very bad results. So eventually he sent me to the orthopedic surgeon who was my fourth diagnosis and in a heartbeat he said you need immediate surgery and I said do it. It was an amazing surgery then I got my life back. There’s a lot you didn’t tell us about the kind of other pains back pains you might be having so it’s hard to tell, but I remember that electric shock feeling for sure! And then I remember it stopping.