Lumbar discetomy last week

Hi

Yes my back the pain in terrible in my leg worse than before i know early doors in my recovery but i know two people who had this done and they both had instant relief after surgery .

I can hardly walk i called the hospital and the doctor said he was not concerned and to just wait , i have not received a follow up appointment yet , but when i do i will be expressing my concerns.

Rachael

HI

Thanks for the email i went to get my staples out today , as that is what my letter said and also said i had 7 staples in . Nurse took my dressing off and no staples , just some small peel off strips . I did not feel them in my back so was not surprised . Just confussed as letter said i had 7 in. I am going to watch to see the doctor . I am taking tramadol , oramorph and pregablin . But my leg and calf is just throbbing and cant stand for 30 seconds as it hurts so much. Hope mine is not a failed surgery ,

numb foot back pain but told that might not go pretty black and white my surgeon was back pain numb foot think u need to chill hurts though first off i discribed it like a shot gun blast good luck

not a laugh a bag of pills bottle of morphine coowee if you were given a bottle of morphine go easy on the silly stuff never had morphine before funny popping it in me tea laughing about it in the street with my nabours ahowing them my scare coowee not a laugh stopping taking the stuff that was a journey in its self . 3 weeks odd i had mine moveing numb foot still back aches but hopfully it will stop the spasms drop me to the knees type so ummm anything is better then crawling on the phone he said 3 nonths i should wait for my hernia operations so to be honest one is glad im past the first week and didnt think to much about the first week i would just take it easy in the first week not fair on your body to do to much in the first week swelling and all the rest pamper your self and take your medication as told and head at the dressing change at your surgery on the 5th day i think just head at that and not worry till after that have heeling nice is a good start 😃

got given a bottle of morphine first few days every 6 hours morphine tea and i was on my sofa peeing in a bottle as thought sod even trying to get up so maxed out on the meds just thought the pain was what was it was surposed to feel like . 2-3 day got into the run of it and started dosing my self up to move or get to the toilet as lol never great p*****g in a pot but hay ho what u got to do is what u got to do if in pain medication you need simple as that take the sting out of it no point in being a hero in the first week no point in opening the wound heart goes out as its a tough painful journey you will be ok get onto your doctor and up the medication bottle of morphine a week or so kick that and down onto the week meds not an expert as only 3 weeks out of having operation but 2 hours up right is enough a day and gradually build it up or what ever you can do or what bits and boobs yours surgeon chopped out lol look at mine and think cooweee what o what did he chip and chop lol did mind so much told him if it looked in the way of a nerve chop it out the way sorry its no funny the first week you will find the funny side of it in a week or so puffed out i an still less medication more puffed hated coning of the morphibe but it was a god send for the first few weeks