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So I had back surgery on Oct 12th look at my other thread a very common surgery. I went back to the surgeon Oct 24th for followup.
She was surprised to see me limping so much and my pain level still at a 7. So much so I am taking 4 oxycodone a day and 4 muscle relaxers with it.
I still can't sit for more than say 30 mins and standing my right leg goes completely numb. My right quad feels like someone gave me a charlie horse almost all day.
My right quad and calf are always numb and my right foot is especially weak.
My surgeon has great accolades and this was at Barrow spine institute supposedly the gold standard for these kind of operations.
She wants to do another MRI Thursday to see what the problem is. She put me on a 7 day cycle of prednisone to see if this would relieve the inflammation.
She is confident she did a good repair.
She stated it's a 2-6 week process to be completely pain free but to still be at a 7 and the muscle weakness concerned her.
This sucks.
She was surprised to see me limping so much and my pain level still at a 7. So much so I am taking 4 oxycodone a day and 4 muscle relaxers with it.
I still can't sit for more than say 30 mins and standing my right leg goes completely numb. My right quad feels like someone gave me a charlie horse almost all day.
My right quad and calf are always numb and my right foot is especially weak.
My surgeon has great accolades and this was at Barrow spine institute supposedly the gold standard for these kind of operations.
She wants to do another MRI Thursday to see what the problem is. She put me on a 7 day cycle of prednisone to see if this would relieve the inflammation.
She is confident she did a good repair.
She stated it's a 2-6 week process to be completely pain free but to still be at a 7 and the muscle weakness concerned her.
This sucks.