Anyone been under the knife for back issues, or know anyone who has?
I've had two bulging discs in my lower back for 20 years, and I can still aggravate it by doing something as harmless as sweeping dirt up off the floor. Which is how I aggravated it again Monday.
So I've been lying in bed with a heating pad and just getting totally fed up with it. I've had to cancel appointments I had this week and I'm at my wits end. I've done chiro, PT, pain killers, it's all ineffective. Sometimes the stretches I do at home can exacerbate the pain too. Nothing works, and sometimes just makes it worse.
I've researched back surgery a bit online, and it seems like some people had success and others had worse problems afterward.
Any info/advice you guys can give me either firsthand or secondhand is appreciated.
(I have bulging discs in L4 and L5)