How can your back get better since when you have back fusion (spinal) it puts pressure on discs around?

Question

I had a botched lasectomy on my 2 lower discs and then went down the line to 10 in 3-4 years.

Answer 1

Now you have had time to think about it, would you return for fusion? The best they can offer is to remove the disc and fuse the vertebra, which means that the normal gap between the vertebra is no more. When you look at the mechanics of the spine, every vertebrae has to move, even if just a millimeter, that is what they are designed to do. I have a prolapsed disc that hits both nerve roots going to both legs and when this happens the pain, well I passed out for 3 hours last time. However NO SURGERY unless I loose my bowel and bladder function! Reason, because now with a few years of various forms of spinal surgery, they realize that it does nothing to relieve the pain, in fact many patients return in worse pain! Stands to reason even with me, that one disc down, means I am putting other discs under undue pressure, so expect another one to collapse anytime soon. Even with fusion, unless you fuse the entire spine, whereupon you will not be able to turn around, bend over and place other joints under undue strain, surgery is not the answer. The discs dehydrate with age, so at 'some point' in your future the pain will go by itself. Just a question of getting from damage disc to dehydration the best way you know how. Good Luck

Answer 2

what did a doctor say?