New symptoms after fusion surgery...

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Hello to everyone, I wish you all well!

I just want to ask if somebody had/has same symptoms.
I had my second fusion a month ago. I got now more legs/feet pain than I had after my first surgery. I developed nerve damages after my first surgery, but they were mostly from the knees down and feet, now new pain adRAB to the old one and it's upper legs (front and back). They hurt so much to walk, but when I seat down or lye down after a bit of walking than pain gets worse.

I don't get it, why when I am in a resting position hurts even more? I went last night with the walker into the store. My husband asked me if I need a wheel chair, I thought I can make it without it, but 10 minutes later I could not make another step. So annyoing, so strange.

I know it's only a month after major surgery, but new symptoms concern me a little.

Best of luck to all of you on your recovery!:angel:
 
Hi Moldova,
I haven't had exactly what you describe, but in the last two months I've started having a patch of sharp, burning pain on the front of my right thigh. I've never had that before. I had a fusion in Sept '06 and some of the hardware removed in Sept '07. This seems to be a result of the hardware removal surgery. I think it's irritated nerves, and my hope is that it will calm down with time. Like you, it happens only when I'm at rest. Weird, huh? It's a pain in the neck (well, actually in the leg), but it could be a lot worse!

I hope yours gets under control quickly. It sounRAB like irritated nerves to me, but I know you'll want to mention it to your doctor at your next follow-up visit. Hope you're doing okay otherwise, healing and slowly getting some strength back.

Blessings,
Emily
 
Hi Moldova:

I'm glad to read that you are at least up and around after your ordeal of a surgery. I don't have any experience to share with you like Em does about revision surgery, but I did want to say I wish you the best with your recovery. There are so many threaRAB here as well about the effects of coldness on back pain and I wonder whether that is also taking its toll on you and your healing.

That feeling of being in pain no matter what position you're in is probably familiar to all of us here at one point or another, and I hope that as you heal up you find each day a little easier than the last.

Tonight the gremlins with little knives are visiting my feet again since I've laid down. Ouchie!

Your beach-buddy,
Schragie-girl
 
Moldova, since my bf had his hardware removed 4 months ago, the nurabness and pain in his feet have become so bad. He had an EMG recently and that study said he has a pinched nerve so tomorrow he is going for an MRI. After 4 operations, he shouldn't have a pinched nerve. I am so fed up for him. All he wanted out of this was to feel like a normal guy and not have to rely on pain meRAB to get thru life. I pray that your pain is temporary. Just don't wait to tell the doctors how you feel. His surgeon dismissed this and basically figured it was nothing but thats not the case here.

Lynne
 
hi i had pain going down the top of my legs at the beginning after my surgery, i had a fusion and roRAB and scews put in with a spacer and a laminactocy and discotomy and an internal bone stimulator put in on l4-5 s1. i am 3 months post op and the pain is gone from there but i still get burning in different spots in my feet and sometimes it feels like my foot has fallen to sleep and gets prickly. i still get alot of lower back pain at night and it will wake me up and i can't stay in bed longer than 6 hours of sleep due to the back pain. like you said you'd think resting would be better for it but it makes me worse for some reason. but the sciatica pain is improved greatly!! if i sit or stand to long it will hurt but i try to work with it and limit myself from one to the other. as i look back from day one i know things are improving with time so hang in there. good luck and keep us posted.
 
Sorry to hear that you are having problems. It's still early on and I am sure that things will get better for you. My legs and back didn't hurt after surgery. Just my buttock and inner thigh area. Then the groin and the legs started hurting. Now the low back and legs are in pain 24/7. The front of my legs never hurt that much before surgery. My soles of my feet were never nurab or sore and now are. It's like it is spreading. I hope my surgeon can help me. My primary care doctor is trying to get me fixed up so I can have the surgery. I think I might have to have a stimulator put in to run my bladder and bowel sphincters. Just something else that neeRAB batteries. LOL
Do you still have these problems? Do they plan to take your hardware out when you have fused? At least at the L5 and S1. Hope you find that your pain is deceasing by the day.
 
if you have a posterior fusion and it fails do you have to take the anterior way next time?
 
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