New Member- Need Advice
I am a fit healthy 54 year old with increasing lower back pain and increasingly unhappy with the limits it places on my physical life. Standing is the worst, more than 30 minutes I get in trouble, 1 hour can send spasm/lay me up.
Diagnosed desiccated disk L4,5. w/mild stenosis. I am told I am an ideal candidate for TDR, since single level, my good health and my spine and and all other disks in great shape. My doc does ProDisk.
Is my situation severe enough and upside great enough to justify the risk, pain and suffering of an operation of this magnitude?
I do desperately want my physical life back I am a very young 54! yet know this is no guarantee....this is a difficult decision!
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Steve
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54 year old male
1988 strained lower back lifting heavy package
Up to 2014 mild/moderate intermittent lower back pain
2014 2015 more severe/more often recurring
Jan 2016 MRI Desicated Disk L4,5
4-5mm buldge, Mild stenosis
Single level TDR scheduled
Facet Joints injections, March 2016- no relief
Decision time
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