I have been doing amazingly okay having had two back surgeries within five months of each other. However, Today was a very difficult day. I was doing my usual walking on the treadmill, no incline, and I get this sharp pain up my backside; so, I stopped and stayed calm and proceeded to try to forget what I had just felt.

Next thing I now my right foot big toe was shooting with pain and inside the calf and leg. Then it diminished and started later on in my left big toe. Clearly, my disk is moving left to right on the nerve and I am worried its back to its old self.

I don't want to go through a lumbar fusion; I am really tired of this whole thing. My family thinks I am all fixed up now and I felt like I had a start on life again in a new but different way. Now I am really frightened about returning to the whole process of pain and its assaults on my psyche and body.
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Plus I don't want to go through anymore visits to dr and complain; I hate this lifestyle. I am hoping rest and the dr's reference to a regression are the only reasons why this thing has presented itself once again.

Please pray for me and submit any infor or exper. you have regarding the progrnosis for this surgery. The radical sharp pain I had prior is definitely better but todays' quick return to sharp "can't walK" on my feet pain is really upsetting.

Trying to stay calm and rationale.

nearly new again.. Nero :eek: