01-03-11, 04:39 PM | |
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Tina,
Best wishes for your surgery. Here is a thread with the same topic: http://forum.videofitness.com/showth...fusion+surgery Sherry |
01-03-11, 06:23 PM | |
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Join Date: Nov 2001
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Best wishes on your upcoming surgery.
My third lower back surgery was a fusion at L4-L5. Even though I was not ready to walk the following morning, my doctor insisted that I get out of bed and walk. It didn't work out. The morphine made me sicker than a dog. My nurse had to help me sit down and then I proceeded to throw up over everything. I used my own bone for the graft, and til this day, the area where the bone was taken still hurts. My fusion was back in 1997. Walking will be the best thing you can do for yourself. If you can, I would walk outdoors. I had quite a bit of nerve damage in my feet, so I bought a pair of walking poles to help me with my balance. I know people who recovered rather quickly, but because I had two other lower back surgeries in 95 and 96, my recovery was definitely on the long side. I didn't do any PT after my surgeries. I knew enough about working out that I was able to do my own PT. I was given only a 30% chance of this surgery workout, because of the previous two, but I was pretty desperate. I had been pretty much bedridden for a year, and I really had nothing to lose. It ended up being the best decision. Even though I wake up with a certain amount of pain every morning, it's never been bad enough that I had to stay in bed. Fast forward to today, and I'm back at a solid advanced level, something that I thought I would never achieve.
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