As most know I had back surgery on Feb. 7th. and seemed to be doing well until about 10 weeks after surgery, that's when I started to get a lot of pain in my hips. I wasn't able to walk without struggling and lifting my legs at any time put me in quite a bit of pain. My surgery was a fusion with L-4 AND L-5 plus my doctor shaved bone spurs from my spine that was giving me pain on the right side of my back, prior to surgery.
Today I am having pain on the right side of my back at the same place as before surgery, plus my hips are constantly in pain. My doctor prescribed a medication called Gabapentin a drug that is prescribed for epileptics. It also is for neuropathic pain.
I'm posting this because i'm really scared about how the surgery turned out, and would like to hear someone who either has had a similar result or know someone who has.
What's happening to me?
Billy Incardona
I dont know, like I told you I was very certain that you would come out much better than me, i'm just over 3 years post op and still getting better, I had 5 operations first one was May 06, for 3 solid years I didnt improve 8%-in other words nothing, then poof one day Billy Chips(Ray) came to visit and I noticed my back was better, I went off the pills 90% the next week and been somewhat better ever since.
time is your friend, things move around in there, my toes go numb sometimes, the past 3-4 weeks have been the worst in years and you can bet i'm scared. But 10 weeks aint shit, thats like playing pool for 10 weeks and saying "Why cant I win a set playing Alex sometimes?" it just takes more time, the stuff moving around could be causing you ancellery pain. About a year ago I noticed my hip socket on my left side hurt like hell when I'd get in and out of ANY car, it was getting worse and worse, after 6-8 months it disappeared 100%.
My point is your fresh out of sugery, things are moving, the docs can only see whats on the images and that dosent show the whole picture of whats happening. When they have you opened up, and as you know I was there watching them do operations, because I wanted to see what happened to me and how it all fit together, they cant tell then either-its a bloody mess. There is a set of procedures they follow, they look for certain things and install the implant(artificial disc or fusion) its basically the same operation with a different implant. There is no possible way to answer your question here.
Go to the doc, get new images taken, see if the implant moved(pray it didnt) and call me 702-241-8000. I have lived like this in hell for 6+ years. I went to Hardtimes yesterday, to see friends etc. I watched half of a race to 9 and efren play one hell of a game of chess. Is there anything he cant do? Tang Hoa was nice enough to let me use his chair to sweat the chess game, I came home and been in bed the past 24 hours. thats my life. I pray yours gets better
your friend
Eric
or we can play some 18-4 
