10 days post op/ microdiscectomy/hemilaminectomy

Here to share my 10 days post op of a L4/L5 discectomy and hemilaminectomy

The first few days my incision sight pain was pretty painful but nothing extreme and I wasn’t even taking many pain meds, everyday it got a little better and now I basically don’t really have any incision sight pain, however the past couple days my nerve pain has been bad, nothing like post surgery but sometimes so significant I have trouble sleeping, it’s sometimes in my hip, butt, shin, ankle, foot, or thigh and I also think my muscles are tight af. My leg is still pretty weak from my herniated disc but I can’t start PT yet to help with that.

I have little to no motivation to do my walks and have spent most of time in bed. I feel like from the time I woke up from the surgery I’ve been in the weird depression where all I do is sleep and lay in bed. Anyways the recovery has been a lot smoother than I think, it’s more mentally exhausting than physically for me, they don’t tell you the immense fear you’ll have of reherniating every second!