After an awesome 18 months post microdiscectomy - BAM - it
fell off the cliff. I had even managed to go overseas for 6 months with no
drama. How the hell could this happen.
What brought me undone this time? A bad chair. Pathetic I
know.
I had a training day and sat in a terrible chair for the
day, I was sick with a really bad cold, was fatigued and I think I just
couldn't have a decent posture. I reckon it was the straw that broke the camels
back (really bad pun that). I'd come home, everything was fine and I went back
to some bad old habits. I was exercising as much as I could have been and
wasn't proactively taking care of my back.
I couldn't put one foot in front of the other, I couldn't
walk. I could lift my legs up. The pain in my lower back was excruciating.
After about 2-3 days like this, then the leg pain returned - that felling of
your legs being on fire, on the inside, but cold, with my feet going numb.
Back to the Dr's - cortisone injections onto the S1 nerve
root and some MRI's
It was so disappointing to see the disc protruding back out
- I had just had this cut off!!! It had been so good.
In September 2012 I got in to see the neurosurgeon.
2012 scans - disc bulging out are beign trimmed off 18 months ago via micro discectomy
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