Re: OT back pain

Posted by jdemaris on July 14, 2009 at 19:42:51 from (71.124.117.78):

In Reply to: OT back pain posted by dieseldoc on July 14, 2009 at 13:25:08:

Everybody is different. The best you can do is listen to many stories and then make your own decisions.

I've had two major back and neck surgeries. Also a few other injury-related "repairs" with many steel plates and screws. My back pain started when I was in my 20s. When I was in my 30s it got real bad. I went to many Voodo-docs, Chiropractors, etc. and all did nothing for me. Finally, my back got so bad, I could barely stand or walk and the severe pain was constant. So, the surgeon wanted to remove two disks that were pressing against nerve roots. As a mechanic, that made NO sense to me. If my original OEM disks, when full-size, collapsed, why would I do better with them removed or trimmed and made smaller? Well, against my own common sense, I got the operation anyway. They cut out most of two disks. I came out of surgery feeling like a new person. All pain gone (not counting incisions). But, as soon as I went back to work three months later, my back went bad again - and even worse then before (as I was sort of prediciting). In this case, I was correct, and the surgeon was wrong. They rushed me back in, cut out some of my hip bones and stuck them into my back and neck to fuse the joints where the disks had been. That was in 1991. It took me a year to mostly recover, and another year to get as good as I ever was going to get. I've been doing heavy work since then, and, more-or-less, have done pretty good. Not great, but much better then before the surgery.

If you have collapsed disks, there is a reason for it. If you do NOT do heavy work, and it's just a case of weak disks that you inherited from genetics -then maybe removing some of them is a good idea. But, if you lug stuff around and turn big wrenches, - and got a bad back from heavy work - I doubt "trimming" your bad disks is going to help in the long-run. Fusion is a much better long-term fix in many cases. But, like I said, everbody is different. For me, getting my first "disk removal" was a big mistake.

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