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About 4 weeks my lower back really started bothering me. After a week of my wife telling me to go to a specialist, I finally did. I have a herniated L5. The Doc has me doing physical therapy 2 times a week for 5 weeks to see if we can fix it that way. I'm also on Prednisone for the swelling, Percocet for the pain and Flexiril for the muscle tightness and I'm only supposed to do the exercises prescribed by my PT at the gym. The Pred is killing my appetite and making me very ornery.
I was just wondering if any of you guys have had similar lower back issues and if you were able to fix them non-surgically. This is really bumming me out because I really don't want to have another surgery. Add the fact that I already know both my left shoulder(Chronic Shoulder Instability) and Right Knee(Osteoarthritis) are gonna have to be done at some point in the next 5 years or so. Other than that, I'm in perfect health lol.
This is exactly how old I feel right now......
I was just wondering if any of you guys have had similar lower back issues and if you were able to fix them non-surgically. This is really bumming me out because I really don't want to have another surgery. Add the fact that I already know both my left shoulder(Chronic Shoulder Instability) and Right Knee(Osteoarthritis) are gonna have to be done at some point in the next 5 years or so. Other than that, I'm in perfect health lol.
This is exactly how old I feel right now......