Hi there, I hear your pain and can sympathize.
In 2007, I had a microdiskectomy at L4-L5 because of pain but that was nothing compared to last April.

In April 2010 I had a disk fragment (break apart) and the pain was unbearable. I think unbelieveable is a better word. I thought I was losing my mind. I couldn't think, the pain was so intense and those awful feelings of hot/cold, numbness/tingling were so scary. I was just in panic mode 24/7. Only laying down relieved the pain and not always. I couldn't even be operated on because my spinal cord was so swollen, I had to be on 10 days of high does steroids before the surgeon would touch me. I have a drop foot because of it, my achilles tendon is pretty much not responsive on my left leg. But as much as I hate the drop foot, I'll take it compared to that pain.

What kind of surgery did you have? Have you had an MRI since the surgery? Are they sure there are no fragments of disk left? Did they try to give you steroids to help the inflammation? That and Percocet were my saviors. Percocet really didn't help with the actual pain, but it did make me not care about it. But I felt great on the steroids. Have you seen a pain management doctor?

I'm here if you need to talk!

Carly