Your thoughts and info on Back surgery
Hi all! I have been posting alot in the past few months trying to get info about my spinal condition. I have gotten a lot of info from you my intercot friends. So whats happened is I fell in May and was diagnosed with a condition that essentially means I have a billaterally broken L5 vertabrae that has also caused one disc to herniate and another to bulge
Now I have a decision that no one I know has had to make, I have been given two options
live with the pain or have surgery. Living with the pain I guess is an evil I already know about but I am unsure about surgey.
I have done 2 months of thereapy and 2 lumbar epidurals without any relief, so now I have to go for a surgical consult. My doctor told me it would be a laminectomy (remove the herniated part of the disc depending how bad it looks they may just replace the disc) and a spinal fusion which I am really not sure about. If you know anything about recovery or life after these surgeries please share I really wanna hear what you have to say....