Hello.
Does anyone else feel like their "buttocks" is soooo heavy in the mornings? I am 4 week post op laminectomy and in the mornings I hurt. It feels like something is pushing out and down on my back. I still take probably 3 lortabs and day and 3-4 robaxins...I hope in time I won't need anything else. But, with my other mutlilevel bulges, this may be as good as it gets until they develop an artificial spine (I wish!!) ..my dr states that I utlimately would need a four level fusion...whatever. I might as well take disability at 34.

I too wake up with incredible pain in the morning. It is a very deep pain and feels like someone is pushing downward and crunching my spine into my buttocks. I too had a laminectomy in May 2006 and am awaiting surgery now for a fusion.

Wishing you a speedy recovery and a decrease in you pain.