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Hope you're surgery goes good tomorrow and you have a speedy recovery

Sitting here in my recliner watching the boob tube catching up on a few things. Surgery went well so far, dr was able to remove the spinal stimulator and all parts so we are 1 down and a couple more things to go. If he wouldnt have been able to get the stimulator and all the cords out, I wouldnt be able to have an MRI due to the interference between the leads and the MRI machine.  Yep that means never ever and dr even said that if any part of the leads broke off, thats where they stay because it would be to dangerous of a surgery that no nerve dr/specialist would even attempt it do to what it could end up doing to me.  So have to give a huge shout out to my dr for getting the thing out.  Now just a couple weeks of sponge baths while this thing heals.  Sore but, I can manage it, I think, lol. Thanks for the well wishes everyone and hope before long i can get back out on the water with something in the basket .

Just  a note. Many back procedures take 6 months to find out how successful they are. If you don't heal as fast as your doctor promised it doesn't mean your surgery wasn't a success. Back surgeons forget to sometimes mention nerves can take any where from a week to 6  months to completely heal. Many people who expected immediate relief did get full recovery but everyone's nerve system heals differently. Tens machines are the bomb! 

MM DON, by saying back surgery, I was trying to keep it simple.  It wasnt the back surgery your thinking of, I had a spinal stimulator taken out of my back that I had installed over 4 years ago to help with the chronic pain I was having in my left knee/leg after 3 failed knee replacements that tore up my nerves, muscles, etc. it was helping tremendously then the pain slowly came back and I had to have a pain pump installed in my back on the opposite side. Dr. was planning on taking the spinal stimulator out at the same time but when I got into the operating room, he decided the trama to my body having one taken out and one put in would be to great so we left it in.  That was last August.  Then about mid-November, the pain in my knee started increasing and my entire left leg from knee to my toes became totally numb and I couldnt feel much of anything.  The leads from the spinal stimulator were threaded through the little holes that the nerves come out of and it was so tight that there wasnt much room for both but had to do it.  Well as with all things, as I aged and grew older, LOL, now 66, the holes where the nerves and leads are at together started growing even tighter putting pressure on the nerves going to the left leg so that is why we had to take the stimulator out and why I called it back surgery.  Also, we could not do an MRI with the stimulator in because it's not compatible with an MRI.  And I have to have an MRI now to determine any nerve damage or if the pressure has caused a bulged disc which means bringing in an Neurosurgeon to review it and if surgery needed to clean up the nerves what he can. So, this is the first of several more procedures to determine what is wrong or what went wrong.  I had the real back surgery done in 1984 and successful at that . So hope that helps with what I was talking about and sorry I've taken  up space on here with this instead of the off topic site, but my original comment about this has just kept expanding so now I hope not much more will be talked about, but, if you all have more questions on it, feel free to ask. Thanks.