re: Lumbar Laminectomy stories please.

Not a doctor but this shite runs in my family including with me, only one of my uncles has the laminectomy. Not to get personal but best advice I can give you is to take it easy, and if you are overweight, get that new shot whatever you can to lose ans much and u can and walk a ton.
An extra ten pounds makes a huge difference on my pain level.

They can last 20 years or so if u r lucky

Had it about a year ago. Actually had minimal to no pain post surgery. Didn’t even need the pain meds. Was walking down the street and back the same day. Basically can’t do any type of lifting for 6 months

Didn’t cure my back pain but did help with the nerve pain in the legs. Went back to the doc recently, said my shite is still kinda fricked. Said I could do another procedure to fuse the discs but there still no guarantee it’ll work. Decided to just PT the hell out of it and clean up the diet, which has helped the most.

Dr Shamieh out of Avala. Good dude, straight shooter

had it in 2000. I'm still fine 23 years later. Back gets tight and stiff every now and then and some very mild sciatica. But the ruptured disc that warranted the surgery was much worse

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Any advice

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Only do it as a last resort.

I had a laminectomy on 12/27/21. For months after surgery I kept feeling like I was in worse pain than before surgery. Finally did an MRI in April after getting to the point where I could not lay flat and could sleep in a recliner and would have to talk myself into getting up to take a piss because it hurt so bad to put weight on my left leg. They called me three hours after MRI and said go to hospital because I had a staph infection in my spine. Spent a week in the hospital and two months on IV antibiotics. That didn’t work so I had to get a debridement and two level fusion in July with another work in the hospital and two more months if IV antibiotics. It is now March 2023 and still taking oral antibiotics. Had to use a walker then a Cain and now nothing. I will never be the same.

Cyst on L 4. Right now, I can't walk very far due to pain and numbness with tingling up and down my leg. For a couple of weeks excruciating pain but it has calmed down a bit. Thanks.

I think alot depends upon your health (like anything else). If you’re out of shape/obese, results are less likely to be on the good side. I blew out my L5-S1 in my youth. Rolled with it for 16 years until it got to the point where I couldn’t stand up. Had a microdiscectomy with laminectomy, woke up from surgery feeling 16 again. Hardest part of recovery was taking it easy, I felt amazing (especially considering what I had grown used to for years). I was one of the lucky ones i guess. (Subtle I’m in shape brag).

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So you're getting your labia removed?

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I was thinking something similar. When I read

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Lumbar Laminectomy

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I was thinking it had something to do with the part of a woman’s anatomy that holds the vaginal walls together.

But then again, I never finished medical school.



I actually never started medical school, but it is also true that I never finished.

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Constant dull numbness down right leg into foot. Muscle atrophy on outer right leg bad back pain flare ups a couple times a year that put me on the couch

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You got the sugas baw


You gonna lose that foot

BROC. Ferachi