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Originally Posted by Trevor 57
I had an L4-5 fusion last November as my joints had moved forward and squashing nerves. One thing I learnt is that Neurosurgeons don't do surgery for no reason, the surgery went fine but about 4 weeks post surgery I rolled over in bed and felt a sharp pain. In February this year the pain in my back didn't seem to be subsiding so my GP sent me off for a MRI, it appears that I have a small posterior disc bulge in the L3-4 jointI have seen the surgeon a number of times since, the pain has him a bit confused as structurally everything is fine, 2 lots of MRI scans, 2 lots of CT scans, a SPECT CT and a Gallium CT have all cleared of any infection, etc.I saw a specialist pain Doctor last Tuesday; he believes it is the facet joints giving me grief (something my GP mentioned way back in Jan/Feb interestingly). I have to some gentle exercises to do, so hydrotherapy, walking etc and I am going in for 7 bilateral L3-4 facet and paravertebral acute pain block injections early next month. He thinks it will give me enough relief so that I can get on and do some core muscle regeneration exercises to build up the lower back strength.So, I feel your pain imagecheck out these tek screws lol image |
Well I hope it works out for you mate. You're spine looks good now in the images atleast. The angle of mine side on is weird. I'll post a pic soon, I don't have any after surgery yet. How did you go with pain the next day after surgery