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Has anybody had Lumbar decompression surgery?
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My hubby went to see the surgeon today because of his on going sciatica (since July) and the surgeon gave the option of decompression surgery IF the pain gets worse or the pain is unchanged in 6 weeks.
His pain was very slowly getting better but the recovery plateaued and he's had no change in recovery for a while now.
We saw the scans and two of the discs were protruding out from the spine (one disc was worse than the other) and they were both squishing the spinal nerves (the one/ones that go from the brain down through the spinal column). The surgeon talked about if Rick has surgery it would be decompression, so i take it that means a discectomy where they remove a part of the damaged disc (looked on NHS website).
But the scary thing is 1 in 300 people may suffer some kind of paralysis after surgery :eek: which scares the crap out of us.
(NHS website figures)
But hopefully his recovery will start to get going again and he wont need this but i want to try and get info beforehand.
We were told to have a think about it, so has anyone had this procedure done and can you give me your experiences please.
Many thanks, Claire x
His pain was very slowly getting better but the recovery plateaued and he's had no change in recovery for a while now.
We saw the scans and two of the discs were protruding out from the spine (one disc was worse than the other) and they were both squishing the spinal nerves (the one/ones that go from the brain down through the spinal column). The surgeon talked about if Rick has surgery it would be decompression, so i take it that means a discectomy where they remove a part of the damaged disc (looked on NHS website).
But the scary thing is 1 in 300 people may suffer some kind of paralysis after surgery :eek: which scares the crap out of us.
(NHS website figures)But hopefully his recovery will start to get going again and he wont need this but i want to try and get info beforehand.
We were told to have a think about it, so has anyone had this procedure done and can you give me your experiences please.
Many thanks, Claire x
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I was so scared to get it done so kept putting it off. But then the pain got so bad that i went for the op. was sore for about 1 week after but the sciatic pain went completely. I am so happy i got it done.
That's a positive, thanks Gloworm
We asked for an epidural but the surgeon said there was no where for it to go?? (i think he ment about where to inject rick or summit like that
I can not recommend the surgery enough - changed my life.