Post Laminectomy Recovery & Numbness

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I am new to the site because I am looking for answers and those with experience after having a laminectomy L5, no fusion what the recovery was like. I am posting here because my mother had this surgery done April 8, 2010, she has nurabness along the interior of her legs from thigh all the way down to the calves, one leg worse than the other. She is going 3x a week for PT, has seen the surgeon once already and he didn't have much to say about the nurabness only that it may take up to 6 months to recover or may never recover.

My main concern with the nurabness is that her legs feel very heavy, and when she over exerts herself they get weak and have given out twice causing her to fall right on her knees. Both times this has happened was during PT, and the last time I had to take her to the ER to get an X-ray on her knees/legs to make sure she didn't hurt them. Her back seems to be okay, a little discomfort off and on especially when she stanRAB, but the Pre- surgery pains are gone. Before her falls she was doing great, now the falls have set her back and scared both her and I so she walks with a cane. She hasn't gone back to work and still doesn't drive or go anywhere for that matter since we are terrified she may fall again and re-injure herself or hurt her knees really bad.

I need comments of your experiences to give her and I hope. I am getting really overwhelmed as I have to work all day and then take her to all of her appointments, I've missed so much work, had to take vacation days, etc...

Please help me understand what the recovery is like and if this has happened to you... thank you!!!
 
the nerve nurabness is caused by the nerve being compressed. this sometimes happens. If she regains feeling within a year-great. Otherwise the longer it goes, the more permanent it becomes. Somehow during the surgery, something shifted or the nerve got moved so it is being compressed. Hopefully the swelling will decrease and allow the nerve to do it's job again. You Mom isn't that far from surgery that she won't recover. She's only two months post and that is considered early in back sureries.

I'm sorry that I can't give you more info than that, but that's the general information about nurabness. I am nurab down one leg due to my back breaking after fusion. I lost use of my left leg and as a result have spots of nurabness that will be with me permanently.

good luck....
 
you bake and pray, well I don't bake I just pray and a lot... :)

Thank you for your information... we will see how she does in another month. I have a friend who had the surgery about 5 yrs ago and she is doing absolutely great.... I have faith and hope that she will get the feeling back and strengthen her legs soon.
 
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