Vlog post #2 is up! Today I’m talking about spondylolisthesis – what it is, how you get it, and when/why it sometimes requires spinal surgery. Bonus: It’s fun having a diagnosis that no one can pronounce.
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Donna Haines says
I just had spinal fusion April 17,2023. My L4 and L5 also was going back and forth but I neglected mine and let it go for way to long (40 years) until I could only walk with a walker. I also have been doing therapy and discovered I had numbness on the outside of my left shin and top of my left foot with severe nerve pain around each, the worse the knuckle below big toe. And my foot will not raise. We have gotten it to raise some but was told today that it will not come back 100%. My advice to everyone to please don’t wait!! I’m on meds to help with the pain but there is still some.
Joy says
Hi! I just found you blog. I had surgery for spinal stenosis the middle of February 2022. I recovered, I think, at a normal pace with walking with a walker and then a cane. I gave up the cane, can’t really say the date. I was ordered to go to PT for core strengthening. Long story short it aggravated my hip and I now have bursitis! I go back for a recheck on June 9. I am up and walking some (standing straight). Each day is a little better. My hip pain does mess with that knee also. I sit on a lot of ice packs . I am NOT doing therapy now, I am on Medicare and they control how much recovery time and then back on the exercises and the hip flares up! Ugh!
Cathy says
I’m glad I found your page. Been following and reading everything since before my surgery, which was 7 wks. ago….March 10,2020. I had a lamenectomy, a spinal fusion of l3, l4,l5 and S1, and a spinal decompression. Surgery was supposed to be 2 hrs…took 5 51/2 hrs. 2 days in hospital went to a full 7 days in hospital! I had a dura tear which I had to lay flat on back for 24 hrs, however, physical therapy came and got me up and out of bed which caused terrible instant spinal headache,which then I had to lay flat on back again for another 24 hrs.
As of today, though, I am off all pain meds except for extra strength Tylenol. Walking about 10-15 min a day, though I am still a little bent over. I’m working on it. It is still painful in my lower back, hard to get a good nights sleep. Some days are better than others and weather has a LOT to do with it. I’m a pretty healthy 66 yr old. Looking forward to no pain soon! I have my 8wk post op appt. next week to see how things are mending. Good luck to everybody out there! It was not what I had anticipated, but I’ll get there slow but sure.
Sharon Wilhelm says
Hi! It sounds like you’re doing amazing, especially considering all the complications! I’ve had 2 spinal headaches, and they were horrible – I can only imagine how miserable you must have been with a spinal headache PLUS recovering from surgery!!! Hopefully you are through the worst of it and things will just continue to improve for you. Stay well and keep in touch!