Hi there, I'm new to this forum and I'm looking for some support. I feel like I'm the only person who has had spinal surgery and the doctors aren't being much help either... Telling me in answer to all my questions "If it hurts... Don't do it..."
To me that is not an answer... :evil:
Before my surgery I had excrutiating pain raidiating down my sciatic nerve and into my groin area.. I was diagnosed with a left L5/S1 disc prolapse with a rounded lesion compressing the nerve root. I was told that urgent surgery was my only option!!!
The operation that was performed was a L5/S1 disc excision... The pain factor is better but goes up and down with each day.
I would like some advice as to what I can do, as like I said before I have not been told anything useful. The only thing I have been told is that there is nothing I can do for nerve pain but wait for the nerve to mend.
I am extremely impatient!!!! And i need something to do.. As you all can imagine it hurts to do anything... but I j