Envoyée le vendredi 28 novembre 2008 14:53:11 par 66blades66
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Discal hernia removed with microscope. 45 minutes of operation, 12 hours later the patient walks without pain. The scar is only 2,5 cm long. Surgeon: Dr. Nicola Papapietro, MD
Hey i am glad you are doing well. I have surgery planned in about a month. Before surgery did your back hurt or was it just your leg? I am not finding too many people with disc problems who have pain in their backs. Most are just legs. For me its mostly lower back, buttock and sometimes leg.
I had this surgery 2 months ago and its almost unbelievable the difference between now and when I had the pain. Had serious pain for almost a year before the surgery and it was making want to jump off a fucking building.
Life saving surgery.
I had debilitating sciatic pain caused by an L4-L5 herniation that I endured for a year. Also had foot drop, leg weakness, numbness, pins n needles. Finally had this surgery, and I feel it saved my life. The pain made me contemplate taking my life. No other therapy (pt, chiro, back injections, acupuncture, oral steroids, oral narcotics) worked at all.
I had this done L4 L5 jul 27 and 6 days later ,no leg hip pain ,it was outpatient and they had me up walking afterwards to bathroom, incision is about an 1 " long, no stiches, just steri strips, ice it every 4 hrs, The Doc was Great and thats with a Capital G REAT !! ! i'm walking around doing the stairs , my hip does pinch sometimes when I get up or try to sit down, one word of advice stool softener, I am so glad its over and on the road to recovery
wow that's awesome how you're feeling great 4 months post-op... i was still in terrible shape after 4 months... i'm 7months in now and i have recovered no doubt but i don't think i can run yet! i used to play a lot of cricket and that's how i ended up with the bad back...
so have you gone back to cross country yet? when i was just 4 weeks post-op i went to an LP concert under pain killers,, lol, have you gone back to any concerts yet?
hey, i had the same surgery for when i was 16 (i'm 17 now) which done roughly 7 months ago.. i'm wondering what kind of sports, etc. you used to play? how's everything now? it's so rare to find anyone that's had a back-op under 20yrs of age...
I am 69 yrs old & have herneated disc in L 5 & S1 for the last 12 yrs & my chiropractor says to keep away from surgery that there is no gaurentee that it will fix my problem, & that I need chiropractor care, well it hasent done any good for me in all of these years & I am considering going to see a surgeon here in Albany NY bone hospital about this surgery, Cannot take the pain & numbness any longer.
the modern operation is similar to the traditional one, but we do a smaller skin and muscle incision. The success rate depends on the surgeon skills and the nature and position of the herniated disc. The smaller incision is correlated with an early recovery, not with the efficacy of the surgical treatment.