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StevieRayFan
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lynn1961
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Hi Steveray......
I had ALIF surgery on dec. 16. I, too, feel as if i am making great progress. Except for the fact that for the last 3 nights I have woke up to extremely excrutiating sciatic nerve pain. My husbund drove me to the ER and had it checked out. I was given a demerol shot and a prescrip for flexeril.I was not having bad sciatic pain prior to surgery so i donot understand why all of a sudden i am having this now. As far as my back and belly I feel as if the pain is getting much better. Before the surgery, I was having bad hip pain. That is not happening now for me. I walk laps too. You asked was anyone worried, well, I am a bit concerned as to why I am having this sciatic pain now. I will talk to my doc on tues. I am still taking pain med every 4-6 hours along with flexeril or valium. Good luck to you Steveray.......and if you have any suggestionson what I could do for this sciaticpain, I would appreciate it....
LYNN
I had ALIF surgery on dec. 16. I, too, feel as if i am making great progress. Except for the fact that for the last 3 nights I have woke up to extremely excrutiating sciatic nerve pain. My husbund drove me to the ER and had it checked out. I was given a demerol shot and a prescrip for flexeril.I was not having bad sciatic pain prior to surgery so i donot understand why all of a sudden i am having this now. As far as my back and belly I feel as if the pain is getting much better. Before the surgery, I was having bad hip pain. That is not happening now for me. I walk laps too. You asked was anyone worried, well, I am a bit concerned as to why I am having this sciatic pain now. I will talk to my doc on tues. I am still taking pain med every 4-6 hours along with flexeril or valium. Good luck to you Steveray.......and if you have any suggestionson what I could do for this sciaticpain, I would appreciate it....
LYNN
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StevieRayFan
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Hi Lynn,
Thanks for the input. If by sciatic pain you mean down the butt and leg/foot, etc., I'm not sure what would make that come back. I can tell you one thing, though, which my surgeon's RN told me. She said that I may experience stabbing pains in the thighs for up to 3-months. That would also include nurabness (I asked her). I've had some of this "turn on" and "turn off". She said that the nerves would "re-fire". I'm not exactly sure what that means, but I still do have pain which runs down the left leg and into the foot... though it has diminished to about half or just a tad less than what it was before surgery.
So I'm just a few weeks ahead of you. That hip pain I referred to has diminished today. I am hoping it was a result of introducing stair-stepping into my routine.
I hope you will be able to manage the pain till you see the doc on Tuesday. My pain is primarily in the evenings, but I deal with it all day long and I am essentially walking my way through it during the day. Most definitely less than what it was after surgery... but still nagging. I hope your doc says it's not unnatural for things to turn on and turn off during the recovery process. But I's really like to know what he/she says about this. Hopefully you can post about this on Tuesday!
One last thing. I was basically told NOTHING prior to all of this. I knew I had to walk up to 1.5 miles per day... that was it. I did not expect to have pain this long. I am not happy about that. But I am still making progress... but it is slow. I hope for the day that I wake up transformed, but I am beginning to realize it may be little by little each day instead of a sudden change.
Please keep me/us posted. I'll answer any question I am able to answer.
My best,
SRF
Edit: Ask your doc (re the sciatic pain) if it is ok to walk it off. That's what I do, but I can't tell you to do that because I don't know.
Thanks for the input. If by sciatic pain you mean down the butt and leg/foot, etc., I'm not sure what would make that come back. I can tell you one thing, though, which my surgeon's RN told me. She said that I may experience stabbing pains in the thighs for up to 3-months. That would also include nurabness (I asked her). I've had some of this "turn on" and "turn off". She said that the nerves would "re-fire". I'm not exactly sure what that means, but I still do have pain which runs down the left leg and into the foot... though it has diminished to about half or just a tad less than what it was before surgery.
So I'm just a few weeks ahead of you. That hip pain I referred to has diminished today. I am hoping it was a result of introducing stair-stepping into my routine.
I hope you will be able to manage the pain till you see the doc on Tuesday. My pain is primarily in the evenings, but I deal with it all day long and I am essentially walking my way through it during the day. Most definitely less than what it was after surgery... but still nagging. I hope your doc says it's not unnatural for things to turn on and turn off during the recovery process. But I's really like to know what he/she says about this. Hopefully you can post about this on Tuesday!
One last thing. I was basically told NOTHING prior to all of this. I knew I had to walk up to 1.5 miles per day... that was it. I did not expect to have pain this long. I am not happy about that. But I am still making progress... but it is slow. I hope for the day that I wake up transformed, but I am beginning to realize it may be little by little each day instead of a sudden change.
Please keep me/us posted. I'll answer any question I am able to answer.
My best,
SRF
Edit: Ask your doc (re the sciatic pain) if it is ok to walk it off. That's what I do, but I can't tell you to do that because I don't know.
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lynn1961
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stevieray.......
Yes, that is what I mean by the sciatic nerve. I had some leg pain prior to surgery but it was tolerable. But now.........it is unbearable. My pain med doe not even touch the psin at all. It is excrutiating to say the least. I will let you know when I do find out what my doc thinks~
LYNN
Yes, that is what I mean by the sciatic nerve. I had some leg pain prior to surgery but it was tolerable. But now.........it is unbearable. My pain med doe not even touch the psin at all. It is excrutiating to say the least. I will let you know when I do find out what my doc thinks~
LYNN
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StevieRayFan
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Lynn,
ITMT,
How long are your laps, and how many of them do you do?
My typical lap is approx 45' from one end of the house to the other. I have been starting out with 52 laps in the morning (once) then 22 laps 5 more times throughout the day and evening. A few days ago I incorporated stair-stepping into the mix (up/down one flight 8 times non-stop, between walking sessions).
Twice I have had to back off from my walking schedule and purposely do less because of the way I felt the day after. I backed down yesterday, and felt better this morning because of it.
I can only judge YOUR schedule based on mine. When I started, I was doing maybe 10 laps at a time. I worked up to 44, and backed down to more sessions of 22. I'm now backing down from the 52 morning laps, and doing the 26 instead (with stair-stepping between). I think *I* may have been over-doing it (again).
Do you keep any sort of journal or time sheet? Can you go back and try to spot what you may have introduced from when you were feeling better, prior to the sciatic pains turning on?
ITMT,
How long are your laps, and how many of them do you do?
My typical lap is approx 45' from one end of the house to the other. I have been starting out with 52 laps in the morning (once) then 22 laps 5 more times throughout the day and evening. A few days ago I incorporated stair-stepping into the mix (up/down one flight 8 times non-stop, between walking sessions).
Twice I have had to back off from my walking schedule and purposely do less because of the way I felt the day after. I backed down yesterday, and felt better this morning because of it.
I can only judge YOUR schedule based on mine. When I started, I was doing maybe 10 laps at a time. I worked up to 44, and backed down to more sessions of 22. I'm now backing down from the 52 morning laps, and doing the 26 instead (with stair-stepping between). I think *I* may have been over-doing it (again).
Do you keep any sort of journal or time sheet? Can you go back and try to spot what you may have introduced from when you were feeling better, prior to the sciatic pains turning on?