The best advise I can give you is ask your doctor these question , I had this opp in 1974 and still happy .

There is a bit of repeats in the two searches below but they will give you a fair bit or research:

sciatic nerve operation video

sciatic nerve operation recovery time

Aussie reply and PeterD REPLY IS THE VERY REASON YOU SHOULD NOT ASK THESE QUESTION ON THE FORUM , We do not know your your real problem and we are not Doctors so please talk to your doctor if you don't trust your doctor get a second from advice from a doctor not us .

What I should have added above is don't delay having the work done. As stated in a few of my links, the longer you delay the operation the worse the results. My wife was resisting a back operation so I badgered her to get it done. It was a wonderful result. She was out of bes within a few days, home in a week and back on the dance floor after six weeks. From that night on she was able to do a full nights dancing, something she had not bee able to do for a few years and then only with a dose of some powerful analgesics.

Despite what was said after my previous post I thought that most of my links presented a positive approach to the subject. Operations on the back have improved significantly in the last 10 - 20 years. A lot of the doom and gloom reports would have been from antiquated information Unless your practitioners are expressing dome doubt then don't delay the procedure. The current state of play is that the results are significantly good and well worth the risk of not having any improvement on the off chance. You did not put your location in your profile (a general area is sufficient) but if you are around the Hunter district I can suggest the back specialist that did wonders for the cook.

Now Pipes , Pomme an expert and has give you expert advice .

Hi,

I had this op (a Laminectomy) years ago and my op was successful, but out of every 3 done, only 1 was successful. Best advice I can give you is buy the book "Be Your Own Back Doctor" which you can get from Amazon from $1.85 up plus postage - I used it to diagnose my own back problems and I had severe Sciatica, however, you speak to the Neurosurgeon as an equal and discuss with him what you want him to do for you and the book will provide you with everything you need to know and how to diagnose what sort of back pain you have.

The Neurosurgeon, one of the 3 best in West Australia at that time, thanked me for finding out about my back and deciding what I wanted him to do, so that he was not ultimately responsible for the outcome of my back, but I was - as he could only do what he felt was the best outcome for his patients, but did not always get it right.

After my op, I found out that 99% of the people at the hospital, one of Perth's most exclusive and private and expensive (but I had full gap insurance cover and I was working) were back again for another op, because the one's before had not worked.

If you don't have any pain, do nothing. Don't go to a Chiropractor or a Physiotherapist because they might make your back a lot worse, where time alone will fix it. I went to both and after my last visit, the only option for me was surgery - I often wonder if I had not gone, if I could have avoided surgery - probably not - but still?

If you have hurt your back, the best thing to do is rest - lay on your back and try to stay in bed for at least 3 days - you will probably find your back is still a bit sore, but it will right itself with time - just take any pain as a warning and don't keep pushing it - or else.

I would recommend that you never have a back operation unless the pain you are suffering from, is beyond what you can cope with, for the rest of your life.

What happens is, a disk in your backbone ruptures and the contents which, when you were young, were liquid, have hardened as you have got older and have pushed your Sciatic Nerve out of alignment, within your spine (which is hollow) and that is causing the numbness and pins and needles down one leg that is making life hell for you, pain wise at the moment.

If you don't have pain - don't do anything.

If you can get over it with rest - then rest.

 

Richard

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