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Posted 3/13/2016 3:23 PM (GMT 0)
I'm new to this forum. I'm presently recovering from spinal surgery which occurred 5 weeks ago. Recovery has been a difficult journey, especially from a pain standpoint. If anyone else has experienced back surgery, I'd be interested in sharing info and experiences.
Posted 3/13/2016 9:18 PM (GMT 0)
Hi Kath & welcome to Healing Well. Yes we have had people have different spinal surgeries, many involved the neck too. If you will look in CP101 at the top & scroll through towards the end you will find a wealth of info about surgery & recovering from it. Its from folks on here that had cervical fusions done, however, it should be helpful to you. What type of surgery did you have done?

The most important thing you can do is follow your post op directions to the letter. Walking is one of the most important things you can do. It will help you build up strength & stamina. Getting up & moving around serves a lot of purposes that is crucial to your recovery.If you had a fusion done you have a very long road ahead of you to have a complete recovery. Look for ways to distract yourself from the pain whether its listening to music or reading a book.

What led you to needing surgery? What type of dr did your surgery? Welcome aboard & take care.
Posted 3/14/2016 4:20 AM (GMT 0)
Hi Kath and Welcome to HealingWell Chronic Pain Forum. There are allot of us here on the forum that have had spinal surgery. Many of us have had multiple surgeries on their back and neck! Some of us have had surgery on parts of our spines but have other bad areas that our doctors won't touch. In my case I have herniated disc in my Thoracic spine and the surgeons I seen won't touch them so I was put on disability and pain management.

Anyway share with us what ever information about your back surgery and your pain that your comfortable with. We all understand what it is like living with and coping with pain! So when your here on this forum you're not alone we all can empathize with you! Of course we can't fix you but we can lend you our ears and listen to you, and share what advice we might have from our personal experiences. This is a great place to come and vent your fears and frustrations about your pain and condition and know that people here will listen and support you! When your here on this forum your part of our chronic pain family and we all care about and support each other!

I wish you well and again Welcome to the Forum!

White Beard
Posted 4/23/2016 2:13 AM (GMT 0)
Hi, I am new to the forum and had an anterior posterior L3-L4 double fusion. I tried everything else prior to making this important decision. I am 3 months out and just started physical therapy and definitely agree that moving is very important. I was on major pain medicine during rehabilitation and I was able to manage the pain with Percocet 10 for the first month two months. My pain is getting better and I am down to a 5 Percocet. I am not a fan of pain medicine but at three months I have tried not to take the pain meds and I just could not function. My Neurologist said if the pain continued he would refer me to a pain management center. I am very concerned that I still may need to take these pain meds and for how long. Has anyone had this operation and if it is normal to take these meds for this long? I want to get off of them but I can't handle the pain and then I don't want to do anything.
Posted 4/23/2016 7:49 PM (GMT 0)
Hello Lg & welcome to Healing Well. If you would please start your own intro thread so others will see it & be able to pop on & say hello. We don't want to hijack another members thread, lol. If you can copy & paste what you have written above it would be perfect.

Thanks.
Posted 4/23/2016 8:45 PM (GMT 0)
Susie, I am unable to cut and paste. I will start my own thread and apologize .
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