Herniated Disks Anonymous: Night before the cutting

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Night before the cutting

I'm going to make this short tonight. I've got just about everything ready for tomorrow. Mom came over and made dinner. It was delicious- salad, turkey meatloaf and rosemary potatoes. She and Ryan have helped me get things together.

I went to church today and made it about half-way through before I was in too much pain and had to head to the car where I could recline. The pastors and several people prayed for me, for which I am so thankful. Having encouraging people around, supporting you and praying for you in such a time has been an incredible blessing.

I am ready. It's been a peaceful evening. I will let you all know as soon as I can how the surgery went. Thank you for all your prayers and wonderful words of encouragement.

Goodnight,

Michelle

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Herniated Disks Anonymous

I started this blog because while I was suffering with severe sciatic pain, I found many other people who were suffering too. I had pain radiating down my right leg off and on for about 5-10 years. At the time of this writing, I am in my early 30's. I felt like an old woman dealing with this pain and even had, had a boyfriend who made fun of it (he is no longer in my life). When I became incapacitated at the beginning of August, the doctors I was working with tried everything they could with medicine before resorting to surgery. The source was eventually identified through an MRI. Even though all the pain was in my leg, it actually originated at my spine with a severely herniated disk at L4-L5 (at the base of my spine).

I was taken through a series of medicinal treatments, none of which brought relief, including chiropractic care and steroid injections directly into the disk. What finally worked for me was a microdiscectomy. In the procedure, they removed on the part of the disk that was herniated. The procedure was an immediate success. As I lay in the hospital the evening of my surgery, all the pain in my leg was gone. It was a very painful recovery at first, but just over a week after surgery, I was off all heavy medication and down to occasionally taking Ibuprofen.

If you have any sort of back pain or leg pain, I implore you to get to the doctor and find out the source. Do not let them try to just treat the symptoms! It will be futile and it could just continue getting worse. Find a highly reputable neurosurgeon to help diagnose the problem. The recovery of this surgery was very difficult at first, but every day I get better. The pain of healing is very different than the pain associated with something wrong. I am looking at returning to work just 5 weeks after surgery.

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Sunday, September 20, 2009

Night before the cutting

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