I've been told that once you have back surgery, your back is never the same... Sorry to hear about all the pain!

I have lower back pain, but mine is due to a congenital bone defect in my lower lumbar spine. There really isn't anything that can be done. I see a chiropractor and it has helped a lot! I know my doctor sees a lot of people with your kind of pain and it seems to help them out. A guy was just in for a herniated cervical disk (i over hear all the conversations!).

Anyway, along with the "cracking" I also have ultrasound and sinewave therapy which makes my muscles feel relaxed and really helps with the pain.

Thanks

I finally am getting some relief, but the pain bounces from side to side each week. Now I only have sharp pain on the top of my right side hip???No sciatic pain or left side back issues, but the pain on the right feels almost like a runners kidney cramp...Im guessing I need to stretch it out since all I have done is fat around the house since surgery...

Hi, I am new to this web site also. 8 weeks ago I herniated my l4-l5 disk and was in so much pain, I could not move without crying. Went to gp and she put me on oral steroids. Pain did not get much better so they did an mri and sent me to a nerosurgen. He put me on oral steroids for two more weeks and sent me to physical therapy. The pt made it worse. Went back to the nerosurgen and he said I needed a microdiskectomy. I told he I thought we were jumping into surgery too fast and asked about an epidural shot. He said it would not help me since I have already taken 3 weeks of oral steroids and they did not do much. I told him I wanted to try it anyway before considering surgery. I an scheduled for the epidural this week. If it does not help at all I will have to consider surgery. At this point I can not sit or stand in one place for more than 5 minutes.

Back surgery really scares me and I was looking for someone who has had this kind of surgery.

I just don't want to be worse off after the surgery. Also don't want to be on pain pills the rest of my life.

Do you know of anybody who has had good success with this. My doctors said there is 90% success rate. So far I have only found the 10% that is unsuccessful.

Cant speak for everyone, but I waited for 3 months before going for the microdiscectomy, and I think that srewd me worst...By the time I got done wit pt I was in more pain...After the 1st surgery I felt great for a month then the disc slid out even more.Had the surgery again and it was sore for a month but all I did was fat around the house...I started stretching the hammies and back last week and now the back is finnaly making some progress...

As far as surgery goes, my pain left me stranded on the toilet one too many mornings so I had enough and opted to let my insurance work...

Good luck

Hello I have had two surgeies on my lower back, I still had pain after both but it got better every day iwent 15 years and no pain, and I am here again I got 5 discs heriated now, and can''t wait to get them cut.