05-08-2013, 04:29 PM
So I can join the club: herniated disc, L5-S1. Started around new year, without a specific catastrophic injury, although one day I was doing reverse crunches and something popped in my spine with a little pain but only for a moment. That might have been it. Then there was hip pain, that I thought was from mobility exercises, which went to acute hamstring pain while walking. The doctor sent me to physical therapy, which not only did not help but I think made it worse, then finally got an MRI and then FINALLY a cortisone shot on 4/2. Before that there was about a month of extreme pain which pretty much shut me down. As my wife said: "You weren't here." So I got about 50% improvement from the shot but still some leg pain and foot numbness. I was getting better but now am stalled.
So you fellow sufferers: Do I just keep on, or ask the doctor for another shot (the latter seems better to me)?
So you fellow sufferers: Do I just keep on, or ask the doctor for another shot (the latter seems better to me)?
the hands that guide me are invisible