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Originally Posted by The Bad Cormorant
So after 5 years and what I had considered a complete recovery, the disc is very much in the same condition as it was when I was in total agony; All very disappointing, I had guessed it had returned to normal - I wonder if the nerve just gets used to the contact ?
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Sounds like you answered your own question.
I've herniated discs many times, and they seem to heal in time (usually a few weeks for me), though I have a few places where there's no appreciable disc material left (bone-on-bone). My surgeon advised me from the get-go that there would be some natural adaptation/healing in the form of auto-fusing of vertebrae, and imaging shows that has happened, and is continuing to happen. Over time some things hurt less—other things hurt more.
Doc