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Old 08-20-2015, 09:57 PM
pittpete pittpete is offline
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How long were you in the hospital after the PLIF? How long before you were getting around on your own?
Surgery Monday morning and left Thursday afternoon.
I could've went home Wednesday but chose to stay.
I honestly thought the surgery would be worse.
I was up walking around on Wednesday.
I took a shower and a giant dump on Thursday morning by myself without any help..LOL
I took muscle relaxer and roxycodone 5mg for 3 days.
I've taken tylenol on 3 separate occaisions since.
Stiffness gets better each day.
No back pain any longer, just kind of stiff above surgery.
Go to doc on Aug 25th for my 2nd follow up..I'll update after.

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Born 1970/1995-Hurt at work/1996-Right disc fragment L4-L5 discectomy-On/off back pain,no serious leg pain until/2007-Right herniation L5-S1,recurrent small herniation at L4-L5 with unbearable leg pain/6/08 discectomy L5-S1/leg pain relieved/occaisional mechanical pain/2012-Cymblata 60 mg,occasional aleve/2014-LB pain not debilitating but chronic,Rhizotomy relieves facet pain on right side/2015-L4-S1 facets shot/4/15 PLIF L4-S1 with facectomy
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