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Originally Posted by seahorse02
I should have asked in my previous post.....does my MRI sound really bad to ya'll?
I know that it feels really, reeeally bad. Back hurts, right leg hurts all the way to the foot, muscle spasms in both legs are constant, right leg goes numb driving, both knees ache something awful in the backs of them.
Orthopedic surgeon rated it an 8 in severity, but he advised a laminectomy so fast that I was a bit leery of him.
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I have had surgery twice on L4/L5. The first one was 10 years ago and it was laser surgery and I was ok in 3 weeks. This last one was open back surgery and has taken me an entire year to recover. I thought that every ortho uses laser and open back was a thing of the past. I was wrong because I assumed. I think the key to alot of people avoiding surgery is to strenghthen their core and back muscles. It takes 6-8 weeks. But it depends on what the specialist thinks as well. I would only use a neurosurgeon or an ortho spine specialist for surgery. Not every ortho is for spines. Surgery should alsways be last option for many reasons.