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I am 37 I had surgery on my l5-s1 disc at the age of 29 I’ve worked more than a handful of jobs since as well as applying for ssi numerous times while the only thing i have to show for it is several air bibbles in the same region because of epidural injections when my sciotic nerve shuts my lower extremities down. I spend my days constantly trying to rid myself of all the herniated disc symptoms & the best things I’ve found to work “for myself” are stretching, massages, inversion, heat or cold presses, yoga, very low impact workouts & a lot of rest. My next step will be to use magic being as though I have exhausted every resource I could possibly come across so until I can make it magically disappear join the club & deal with it.

I am a 47 yr. old and have been an auto mechanic for 25 years. I have 3 bad dics in my low back and 3 in my neck. I have fought low back back pain and numbness in my legs for many years, then my neck started to have issues about 4 yrs ago, I tried chiropractic, had several injections and physical therapy. I still continued to try to work { missed alot of time during this period } until the day both my legs went totally numb and i continued to try to finish the job I was working on ,when my arms stated to go out on me with severe neck pain. this was the last day I was able to work. after being out for over a year my condition continued to deteriorate even without activity. I also have carpel tunnel in my right hand as well,the pain and numbness along with weakness in all my extremities has disabled me to a point where I cannot be stationary for periods of time nor active without about 3 days of bed rest to recover, yet I was denied social security disability. If anybody has any similar experiences I would like to hear about them and how they turned out. I do have a lawyer for a workmans comp claim who is also doing the SSDI, but its difficult to get information from him as he does not want to speculate. thanks and your commencts would be appreciated.

Surgery for a herniated disk is a treatment of absolutely the last resort. Unless it has herniated to the point where the contents of your disk(nucleus polposus) is extruded into the spinal canal, which is very rare, or you are experiencing symptoms of caude equina syndrome (where you loose bowel and bladder symptoms and loss of feeling in your saddle area), disk surgery is not generally recommended, because of its low long term success rate and highly increased chances of further degeneration in the areas surrounding the incised disk.

Conservative chiropractic treatment and rehab with physio therapy, and excercises are the best options. Both cheapest and most effective. There is tons of literature that supports this, yet MD’s often dont recognize this, although in the recent years there is much more collaboration and recognition among the professions.

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hola a todos lamentablemente yo padesco de una severa hernia discal l5-s1 a mis 20 años de edad. Yo llevaba una vida normal praticaba ejercicio con frecuencia aparte praticaba voleybol y futbol mucho mas es mi motivacion diaria. A los 18 años deje de estudiar y me puse a trabajar en la contruccion (obra civil).
hace un unos 9 meses empeze con el primer sintoma cuando estornudaba me dolia el gluteo vamos que en mi ignorancia no le preste atencion porque era una simple dolor d unos segundos, yo seguia con mi vida normal ejercicio, trabajar,un poco de fiesta alcohol ocacionalmente, fumar nunca e fumado pero en el trabajo me dieron un dumper (maquinaria de contruccion) ace uns 4 meses todo iba bien cuando empezo el dolor en la espalda fue cosa de unos 2 dias luego paso al gluteo derecho por la parte de atras fui al medico de la seguridad social y me receto antiflamatorios, insisti para que me icieran una resonancia y lo logre el resultado d la resonancia Severa hernia discal en el disco L5-S1 importantes signos contracturales, intensa rectificacion de la lordosis, mi conclusion es que yo ya tenia la hernia sin saberlo claro pero no presentaba dolor pero cuando empeze a trabajar con el dumper por la vibraciones y estar sentado todo el dia en el me afecto a la hernia que no podia ni caminar llevo de baja 1 mes y medio y ahora camino pero sigo con el ormigeo en la pierna derecha y me duele cuando quiero levantarla.
Quisiera antes que nada pedir disculpas por mi falta d ortografia como veis al principio deje los estudios jaja quisiera consejos ayuda alguna explicacion que seria buena una operacion una quimeoterapia si podria acer mi vida normal mi gran anelo jugar al futbol sinceramente estaba muy deprimido pero ya voy a mejor e visto que la ciencia avanza y estan experimentando con celulas madre nada deseo lo mejor a todos los que padecemos esto y ANIMO

I have A L5S1 herniation, It tends to vary in pain and numbness. I found out about It in a rather painful manner. I found Out In Boot Camp in the Marines. Apparently I had it for 2 years and it never shown any signs other then a mild discomfort to sit (driving to be the worst.) After my Medical Discharge I Was given 5 different opinions. Most said surgery would do ten times the damage then actual good while others jumped at surgery with out a thought. I had injections into my spine to lower swelling. It did great for me for about a month, and did physical therapy which helped alot. After Boot it developed into running on a treadmill will cause me debilitating pain that caused me to collapse on the running machine. I was pointed to the elliptical machine which did not bother me in any way. Sitting in long periods would cause a numbness in my toes to the spot of the L5S1. Eventually it came down to weather and pressure change caused pain that caused me to not be very active. Currently I have noticed my right leg has lost a large amount of flexibility of movement and strength.

my husband just had back surgery yesterday. he had to have his l4 through s1 disks removed two rods and six screws and some kind of cushions inserted was wondering if you could give us some more information about this subject

An excellent understanding on this. Thanks. I have dealt with low back injuries from multiple accidents while involved in extreme sports and one thing is for certain, you don’t want to mess around with your spine.

Building a strong core around your spine is invaluable to longevity if you have serious back injury or degenerative discs. Thanks for sharing your info!

Quite good 5-step process of getting the right treatment for your disc herniation.