has anybody recovered from a very painful back?[slipped disc,etc]/?

Answer 1

I had an Extruded L4-L5. It was pushing on the nerve root causing drop foot on my right side. About 2 months after the injury I had a microdiscectomy performed by a nuerosurgeon. I was in the OR at 12:30 I walked out of the hospital at 9. 6 weeks later I returned to work as a firefighter. I have never felt stronger. The trick is to avoid surgery if you can but if not find a good nuerosurgeon (the ones affiliated with big city hospitals are usually best). If this is worker's comp you still have the right to pick your doctor despite what your boss might tell you.

Answer 2

Hi
Yes, I have. I have always problems with my lower back since I was around 30 or so, due to hard physocal labor, but I also had two attacks of what is called 'sciatica' which is med-speak for pressure on the sciatic nerve. I was laid up in bed, unable to move, not even to go to the bathroom ten feet away. I gradually recovered and was able to get out of bed and move around after a week or so, but it took another two weeks to be fully recovered, but I was never the same. My back would ache constantly, 24/7 for the next 8 years, getting worse and worse. Soooo....when it finally got so bad I had to quit work, I went to a nuerologist at the University Davis Sacramento, had an MRI which showed a blown disk at the L-4 L-5 lumbar vertebrae, along with stenosis, AKA a narroring of the bone where the nerves go through. I was a candidate for a lumbar fusion operation. After a conference with other specialists, my Nuerologist said it was my best hope, and without surgical intervention, I might easily become a paraplegic if the pressure on the nerves was not relieved. So I was scheduled for the operation, which lasted around four hours, and I spent 3 days in the hospital. I was so full of pain meds I don't remember much about the first week or so. Recovery was very slow, taking around four months to regain stregnth. I had to take it very slow, and go easy on lifing and such. But lo and behold, for the first time in many years I had long periods of absolutely no pain! It was like a miracle. I would still get a very sore back at times, but all I usually had to do was lay flat on my back for 15 to 20 minutes and the pain would subside. ( I had long before stopped taking prescription pain meds. ). So now, 3 years later, I am slowly getting more pain during physical activity. but at 52, arthritis is settling in the vertebrae above and below the fusion, but I am gratefull that I still can have long periods pain free if I don't move around too much and strain my back in any way. So that's the whole story. Don't know if you really wanted this much detail, but it is the road I travelled. Please forgive the typos, spell check was down.

Answer 3

What most don't tell you is, slipped disc will return to the proper location with the right care, and a tight band around the body. If one doesn't watch their self, a slipped disc can turn into a ruptured disc. Once a disc ruptures, the only thing that can be done is remove the disc. A slipped disc can and will return to its location with the right therapy. Don't be too quick to go for surgery, and not many people ever fully recover from having back surgery. Think of it this way; you can take parts out, but you can't put them back in. Take care, and best wishes!

Answer 4

YES, two exploded discs. Had major surgery in 2004, which has worked very well despite my career coming to an end.

Pain management for me involves natural anti-inflamatories, drugs just didn't do it for me after a while and I was having to use more and more of them.

I suppose it very much depends on the type of injury you have. If you want to have a chat about it just let me know, I can call on some help from a colleague of mine if you need it.

Good luck!

Answer 5

During WW2 I crashed an aircraft, suffering a compression fracture of the lumbar vertebrae. This healed in time, but I don't know to what extent it has been responsible for recurrent painful backaches since I got back into "civvy street" and began digging gardens and so on!! Anyway, when I get them now (and they can be excrutiating, as you probably know) I make myself exercise. Yes, that itself forces me to accept more pain, but over a few days it begins to go. Now, only a medical person can tell you if what I do is advisable for you, so ask. In my case I think my trouble is muscular. I lay on my back (more pain!) force my straightened legs (ouch!) into a raised position at right angles to my body and slowly lower them, doing it as many times as I can bear. Each exercise period I increase the number of times. Boy, does it hurt! It sounds as if I am a masochist, but the exercise does gradually strengthen the muscle. I take Ibuprophine at the same time, and repeat the dose according to instructions, and pray.

I've been a Christian from childhood, and believe firmly in the efficacy of prayer, so how does my prayer help? Well, for a fact it has a psychological effect on me, apart from any direct Divine intervention. My faith saw me through childhood poverty due to my father's constant illness and early death, then through 5 war years, running a business on a shoestring, and coping with the deaths of two wonderful wives. It meant I was never anxious, so perhaps made all the right decisions.

Answer 6

I wouldn't say recovered with too much confidence, but at least it's okay at the moment. The problem with these kinds of injuries is that they can recur again and again at any time, and when that happens, you just have to rest up until it fixes itself.
There are various treatments, but it's been my experience that nothing really works except lying down and resting, sometimes for days.
Good luck if you have this problem too.

Answer 7

My partners back was fractured by her ex-husband 7years ago,
She has never fully recovered, was off work over a year and now cannot work at all, has had physio lives on painkillers nothing else can be done she has to live with it. Wakes up in night because of seizures in her back.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

I had a slipped disc. Went to chiropractor, and now I have no troubles anymore. Its been 2 years now.

Answer 10

yes but pain still stays there. it never really recovers!