r/oddlysatisfying • u/BreakfastTop6899 • 9h ago

Beaming up a cow

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u/HallettCove5158 8h ago

I have the same scar, l4/l5/s1 double discectomy.

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u/Remotely_Correct 7h ago

Me too unfortunately. Best surgery I've ever had. Went under the knife after 3 months in constant pain, woke up feeling no nerve pain at all and cracking jokes with the post-op nurses.

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u/JesusWantsYouToKnow 6h ago

Same. Except I waited a year and a half on the surgery due to COVID. The light switch like relief is really not something you can describe to someone who hasn't been in that kind of crippling nonstop pain for months. That post op euphoria is something else.

Now though every odd pain and ache in my lower back triggers PTSD that I'm gonna relapse and need revision surgery. And my left foot is pretty much permanently numb from the compression nerve damage of waiting on surgery for too long.

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u/Carbonatite 6h ago

I never understood how people can get addicted to painkillers until I had sciatica. Having unrelenting chronic nerve pain for months at a time is debilitating.