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Had surgery last October for a herniated dist, was othoscopic Metric (?) surgery. I'm in the military so if they did a fusion I'd be immediately discharged.
Herniated the disk in July that year. Was in the weight room doing squats, and two shitheads were fucking around and one pushed the other right into me. So I collapsed with 380lbs on my back and herniated the disk. They diched of course.
Pain in my left hamstring increased exponentially over the next month, ending up having to use crutches to get around. So for the next 4 months went to doc after doc, each one being retarded. They'd tell me it was a tear/strained hamstring, I'd tell them it was something else, that I've done it before many times and this was a different/constant pain. Finally after 4 months they sent me to a military doc, he got me an MRI and it was a herniation.
The disk completely engulfed the right siatic (sp?) nerve, they couldnt even see it on the image. So I went under the knife. Woke up that day I didnt even need painkillers, gotten so used to constant pain now I felt great. You're restricted on weight carrying (5lbs) afterwards but it's truely night and day. I have been taking my recovery VERY slow (trying to be a pilot so they're very touchy about back probs), a month after the surgery I was running on the oliptical runners, and 4 months after that was running on a treadmill. Still have problems about once every two weeks I get the numbness in the bottom of the foot and about once a month get a small pain back in my hamstring.
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