Lower Back Infusion Surgery

I have always experienced lower back pain since I played football in high school. The doctors back then would pass it off as muscle acks and prescribe pain killers and taking it easy. I can't remember a day in my adult life that I wasn't hurting in my back. I saw countless back specialists and laid under many CT Scanners and MRI's, trying to find out what was wrong with me. Everything was fine with my back and everyone would accuse me of making it up. I simply suffered with the pain and downed a lot if Ibuprofen.

Finally, after my 68th birthday, an Arthritis specialist found calcium growing next to a Saitic nerve. By rubbing on the calcium, I'd feel the pain in my right knee and not the back, where it originated. The doctor told me the only solution was to have a lower abdomen fusion surgery. I decided to suffer the pain and wait until I reached retirement at 71 to get it done.

By the time I reached 71, the pain in both knees and legs got so bad that I had to start using a wheelchair. MRI's detected that the L4 and L5 had lost most of their padding and were sitting on the 4 nerves servicing the legs. My doctor said if I waited any longer, I might be crippled for the rest of my life. Before accepting the advice, I researched the procedure inside and out. I spoke to several men my age who had the surgery and all advised me to do it.

It took 6-hrs and a team of 3 doctors and 4 tecs to install the 2 Titanium disks. The procedure consisted to going inside my abdomen and screwing the disks to the inside of my lower back. I was dismissed with no information except it was a perfect operation and that it should be totally healed in a month of so. I was told I would experience some pain issues during the healing time.

PAIN, PAIN, PAIN! After a month of horrible pain in my hip and legs. The surgeon told me I had damage to the nerves that had been pinched between the L4 and L5. He said the pain was being caused by the healing process of the nerves