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Originally Posted by lostinsidemyself
Indeed. No one ever advised me that 70% are failed surgeries and could make it worse....it has failed and its a lot worse now than before I had the surgeries. I could walk with pain meds before the surgeries, painful but i could walk. Now i can not walk, my legs wont hold any weight post-sugeries 7 yrs after, without very strong medication and evem so i still have massive pain. I had to have a pain pump implanted to give myself as many yrs to be able to walk even with medication as possible but eventually even with medication in the pump, I will loose all ability to walk. Projected by my current Drs and the reason is fibrosis...scar tissue from the 2 surgeries, pressing on nerves that if removed comes right back.
Im 35, I wonder where i will be at 45, 55...??
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to both of you. I'm so sorry. That's exactly why I don't want to have surgery. When I had weight loss surgery, that went wrong. I'm now fighting to maintain weight and my doctor will randomly talk about a feeding tube. I really don't need more issues to deal with. I have schizoaffective disorder, major depressive type. Panic disorder. I can't gain weight, no matter how much or what I eat. The pain is thrown on top. I just have this bad feeling that if I gave in and had back surgery, i would have complications to make life even harder. Everyone always tells me I'm fine when I have this feeling. Every time I've had this feeling, something majorly went wrong. Just like the night before my weight loss surgery at 22, I laid there beside the person I was dating at the time, and cried and begged him not to let me do it. He kept telling me I was just nervous. But everyone kept pushing me. I spent my recovery in a private ICU (intensive care unit) room across from the nurses station because I wasn't getting enough oxygen. I just know things will get worse if I have back surgery.
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