leg nerve pain after lumbar surgery ment to correct it

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After surgery I felt great. All of the nerve pain I had was gone! 9 days later one of my old leg nerve pain returned and the following morning the other leg. Now I have the same pain I did before surgery in addition to having my spine fused. Im desperate for help.
 
just how long ago was your surgery done? did you call the surgeon when this started back up just so he is/was aware of it? depending upon just how far out you are, some swelling and inflammation can at times kind of 'come back' for awhile til things simply calm down again(alot also depenRAB on just how much you are doing too). i too had my pain return shorty after my c spine fusion was done. but i had a ton of inflammation going on too which actually required a round of medrol. my surgeon told me despite this being contraindicated post fusion since it can inhibit bone fusion that the short duration would not affcet it and that just having th huge level of inflammation at all would also create its own problems with fusion too.

if this is pretty soon post op, you may just have to wait at least the six weeks to really better eval what could be going on in there. getting plain x ray right now would at least show disc alignment or hardware placement(don't know if you had that or not) just to make certain something there isn't knocked kind of out of whack. but eventually just obtaining another MRI on that area would really be the best thing to just really see things more in depth at the surgical area.

did you actually have BOTH legs involved pre op or is this a new type of thing going on? Marcia
 
I have another question...have you had any pain or ache on your hip? If you're unsure, place your thurab on your greater trochanter (that's the protrusion of your femur where the top meets your pelvis) and see if that hurts.

Chances are, if you experience pain there, or along a line from the trochanter to your lower back, then it may not even be related to your spine at all, but your piriformis.

The piriformis is a muscle that runs from your hip to your lower back under the glutes. When this muscle is tight or inflamed, it will impinge on your sciatic nerve, which results in the same problem you describe.

If it's your piriformis, there are certain stretches you can do to relieve the pain. You can find them all online. Another trick is to lie flat on your back & place a tennis ball under each buttock, rolling them along the line of the muscle.

Good luck & keep us posted as to what the problem really is.
 
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