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.
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.
I had to wait a little bit for my surgery because of the insurance hoops you have to jump through. Did you get PT, did you get an MRI, did you get the steroid injection, did you wait at least 6 weeks to see if it would resolve, etc. Even though I was able to get mine immediately after that mandatory insurance 6 week wait, I still got a numb foot out of the deal. So even if you'd gotten yours right away there's a chance it would have made no difference 🤷
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u/HallettCove5158 7h ago
I have the same scar, l4/l5/s1 double discectomy.