Life After Laminectomy

In Laminectomy, surgeons remove part or all of the vertebral bone to help ease pressure on the spinal cord. The total recovery time is 3-4 months.

You can go for light and short walks and slowly increase the pace and distance of your walks over time.

Avoid sitting or standing still for too long.

Change your position every 30 minutes to keep blood circulating and help decrease back pain.

Light housework can be resumed after 2 weeks.

You should be able to return to work 3 to 6 weeks after the surgery.

You can resume having sex once you feel physically able and your doctor has given the go-ahead.

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[pointofpersonalprivilege]

Ill tell my story to maybe help someone in the process. I had my surgery mid august 2023. I am 3.5 weeks out. 2 stage laminectomy l4-l5 / l5-s1. I knew the risks going in and I absolutely hate to hear these horror stories. I did my research and went to the best of the best ortho surgeon in Cleveland Ohio.

My surgery had a couple headaches for lack of a better word. Spinal fluid leakage that was stitched up and was only an issue for 2 hours, 24 hours after surgery in hospital. Hopefully no future issues with that, it does scare me.

Also, 3 weeks out I got an abcess/pimple on my 3" surgery wound. I am on antibiotics and it is shrinking. I looked up and was told a stitch in my muscle was rejected by my body causing the minor abcess. It hurt for a day after they squeezed ot pretty hard, but that is it.

For 6 hours after surgery I was in complete agony. Couldnt move from the surgical pain. Ive never had surgery or felt pain like that. Discharged 36ish hours after surgery. At home I quit the oxy after 2 days, im guessing due to high pain tolerance from having pain for 22 years. The pain was still very much there, but I really needed to poop and avoid liking the pills too much.

Overall I am doing okay. During my follow up exam 3 weeks after, I was in the doctors chair and for the first time in 2 decades I was asked what my pain level was and instead of saying 6-8 I said 0. With confidence.

I almost teared up. I hate hearing these horror stories and pray for you all. I really hope I dont have any of these issues other than the miniscule problems so far.

There are success stories out there that you prob wont see on videos like these.

If you're thinking of surgery Ill say this. I put it off for 22 years. Im only 40. The last 3 years my nerve pain was starting to fk with my basic life. I did everything aside surgery 4 times, everything. Im active, in shape, played sports, aside the last 5 years I only lifted weights and cardio due to pain.
If you need minimal invasive surgery like a laminectomy, so far has been life changing. I did my research, got different opinions, and found the surgeon right for me with the confidence to change my life. I hope it stays this way and I can play hockey with my pops before he hangs the skates up from age.

Thanks for reading, hope it helped someone, any questions just ask. Im pretty active on youtube. Hopefully see the notification

[VeinAndAestheticsTampaBay]

I had a very good experience with a laminectomy in my 3-4 lumbar with Dr. John Soliman in Tampa Fl. I also had a cyst removed in the same area. He was a neurosurgeon and he preformed the operation and I have followed his recommendations pretty well. I am very thankful that I have done so well. I took 2.5 years and went to three different surgeons before scheduling my surgery. I had 8 epidural spinal injections and had to walk bent over after each injection would were off after about 6 weeks. My pain was immediately relieved and I actually worked much of the following day, being careful not to stay stationary for any length of time. I only took pain medication for the first day. Anyway, when I did the research of the procedure month after month, I can only say I was very blessed with the outcome and I thank God for guiding me through my experience and end result with Dr. Soliman.

[dorastus]

6 days out from decompression and laminectomy at L3, 4, 5. Woke up with spine pain gone, only surgical pain now. Went home after 1 night in-patient. My father taught us "Don't ever let them operate on your back!" I believed him, till now. Thank the gods, my 3rd neurosurgeon was the genius. I was so lucky to find him. Planning to travel again after feeling my life was over . Some health issues do need to be addressed. I asked him only 2 questions: what's your success rate and what are the reasons for the failures? Answer to #1: 95% success rate. Answer to #2: obesity, diabetes and lung issues.

[dubaimarket]

I got a Laminectomy on 27th Jan 2024, so basically it's been 9 days so far. I got discharged after 4 days in Hospital. Have no pain anywhere in the body post surgery till now. The leg gets a little numb & heavy at times which the doctor said will go eventually over a few weeks.

I am very careful getting in and out of the bed, walking around 15mins every two hours whenever I have to take washroom trips. I was given 10 days medicines and a spine belt for support. I can say so far so good. Physiotherapy has been recommended only post 5-6 weeks.

The stitches are yet to be removed, let's see. Hoping for the best.

[tonykeller]

Going in for a Laminectomy surgery tomorrow. Due to spinal stenosis Very nervous but hoping for the best. Been suffering years with back and leg pain

[tanouliskitchen]

Always go to an experienced spinal surgeon. Take good care of yourself after surgery and follow your surgeon's advice.

[incessantyoutuber]

The ultrasound technique is now available :-( I only found out after my father had a classical laminectomy. I wish I did my reasearch earlier 😢

[paulwitmer-ty]

It's very hard to know how experienced incapable any doctor is because complication rates are withheld everywhere but New York and California

[iramatusova]

Jó is lenne! Elméletileg lehet hogy így van, de gyakorlatilag sajnos nem így működik, legalábbis nálam nem 😢sok sikert kívánok

[Lifehaaks]

I had open Laminectomy surgery for Disc decompression in 2014. The stitch was big so I can understand how much of bone He would have taken out. Now I have stiffness mainly on left side (operated area) with radiation. So it may be scar tissue compression. Also I always feel the abscence of bony support of left side leading to unequel muscle tension in the Region

[HowardLuken]

Might as well add my two cents. Years of crippling pain that grew worse over time until finally I couldn't function my legs shaking pain down my legs my feet going numb and chronic back pain from my neck to my ass! Neurosurgeons at Riverside hospital in Columbus Ohio wanted to cut me open several inches long and stick the Eiffel Tower is worth of steel and screws into my spine. I said no and assume they were just trying to make money because the doctor only spoke to me once and then wouldn't even respond in emails or anything after that. Went to a second neurosurgeon and he wanted to put a cage in between the l4 and l5 replacing the disc from the front! That would have taken a second surgeon to move my guts around. He did however tell me to stop eating grain of all kind and now I realized that diabetes is not hereditary it's from our diet because my A1C went from 7.9 as tested in the hospital over Christmas of 2021 down to 6.2 now simply because I stopped eating grain and started taking natural herbs and such. Gymnema, turmeric, black pepper, Bitter melon and vitamin supplements. I've lost 20 lb and expect to be closer to normal by the end of the year. However with the spinal surgery this lumbar laminectomy I finally found a surgeon to do it but the minimally invasive half inch incision looks to be more like 3 in or so and it was jagged when I finally got the bandage off a few days later. Look like they'd taken a claw hammer to me! Felt okay the first day or so and then the pain was so intense and wasn't helped because they gave me a back brace that was completely incorrect and had this big plastic cage that was pressing against my spine that shouldn't have been there to begin with. So the pain in my legs and nerve damage and numbness subsided but in the two and a half months or so the lower back pain seems to have gotten worse and shoots out across the top of my hips. I'm able to get up and walk around without the cane that they gave me but sitting in a chair or lying down the back pain is still with me and doesn't seem to want to subside. In the end I don't think the medical industry just like the legal or governmental industry know what the hell they're doing. They're just practicing as they admit. Yesterday's science is today's superstition and witch doctory. Today's science is tomorrow's superstition.

[chifranzvlog]

Got laminectomy and discectomy surgery and after 1 day dr. Sent me home 🚶‍♂️

[gregoryw]

Had an emergency laminectomy Feb 2023 because I was told I have spinal stenosis. My right leg went numb and was literally paralyzed. Spent 48 hrs on my back in the hospital after surgery. Then PT came and they tried to have me stand and I crumbled and in tears due to the pain. 10 days of inpatient rehab and PT then went home. After 6 months of PT and I can finally walk but the pain in my back and leg is excruciating leg still numb. 10 months later back pain and my leg still numb because the surgeon wanted nothing to do with me after 6 months. Finally got a referral for a second opinion in January 2024 and guess what? I need a second surgery ALIF L4 -5 and rods L3 -5 to maybe get the leg to not be numb. Always get a second opinion if you can BEFORE surgery.

[CreativeLea]

I'm about to have a Lumbar laminectomy Decompression surgery this tips please 🙏🏾

[randyrogers]

I had my procedure in May 2021. Everything that could go wrong did go wrong. That 2-4 day stay ended up taking two weeks. I had no back pain going in (lots of leg pain) and ended up with crippling back pain that I still have today. The leg pain was lessened but still hurts. I'm still using a walker to get around. Got DVTs in both legs and ended up with extensive pulmonary embolisms in both lungs and almost died. Now I'm looking at a second surgery in December 2021 to see if they can get it right this time. I can't talk to my original surgeon because he died a week after my surgery

[buckshot]

Do not let ANYONE cut your back without a second opinion. NEVER let a neurosurgeon perform back surgery without consulting an orthopedic surgeon. My life was ruined by the promise of a quick outpatient laminectomy. Nightmare follows a failed procedure and you can't get any recompense when they screw the job.

[BBK_BullyBoundKennels]

I injured my back at work 12th June 2023, was very sore, could not move what so ever, went to the DRs which he gave me 4 weeks off work and physio 3 times a week. It didnt work, he then sent me to a spinal specialist and he sent me to do a MRI which they found I needed to have a epidural that might work, I did that which was excruciating lol 4 weeks later the pain was still there, then the specialist wanted to perform surgery, microdiscectomy and laminectomy, 2 night stay and its been 1 full week since ive been out and still in pain as in cant bend twist lift walk even going to toilet is hard. Just curious on if a laminectomy and microdiscectomy is a permanent lifelong injury or does your body fully heal back to 100% wether it takes 1 year or 30 years plus. Thanks

[patblunt]

I had a L4, L5, S1 laminectomy and bone graft in February 2022 in South Africa. The first 3 days I was in a high care ward with epidural. Day 4 I went to Orthopaedic ward and got out of bed for the first time. My first two months all went well and by end April I was off all medication. Early May I woke up with what I describe as "a brick in my lower back". This ranges from slight discomfort to extremely painful. My Orthopaedic surgeon has no explanation for this and all post op x rays show no movement of rods and screws and bone graft is successful. I exercise daily (specific exercises for post laminectomy) and walk daily too. My question is, does anyone identify with this heavy brick-like feeling and if so, can I expect it to go at some point? I am nearing my 6 month post op date.

[mychevybuddy]

The cheesy-ass music seems worse than the surgery!

[realtalk]

3 years later and I’m still having issues 😢