u/Next-Commercial1385

35 days post opp.
Yesterday i Sat in the car for 4 hours to Sydney (got out each hour for a 5/10 min walk) .
Then went shopping, then sat at the dinner table for hours drinking, chatting and eating.
Now today walking along the beach, playing some games in time zone. More shopping, lunch, and a pub crawl.
There is light at the end of the tunnel guys!

My case wasn’t mild either by far, for the guys that a really struggling in the depths of hell currently!

I remember reading post likes these and them bringing me to happy tears, i just hope i can give at least 1 person the same feeling of hopeful relief!

Can anyone else only really lay on their stomach?

Either on your elbows or flat on your chest.

I see everyone saying “lay on your side, pillow between knees” or “lay on your back, knees up”

Both feel just as fucked, and i only get ‘relief’ when i’m on my stomach

Hi guys.

Ive been dealing with herniated disc and sciatica for over a decade now (for context I am 25 F, horse rider 🙄)

Over the last decade flare ups would come and go, some longer and worse than others but there was always a light at the end of the tunnel.

2 months ago, i felt a flare up coming along. I slowed down in the gym, steady up my work load and took it easy. Although 21 days ago, it became unbelievably unbearable. That shooting, sharp, weak, numbness, absolute torture feeling. I never go to hospital, i went twice in a week for pain relief. Its been horrible, can’t walk, sit, lay, every movement hurts. I do so much laying on my stomach, i am getting sores on my elbows.

I have had an mri, 2 days ago i had a steroid injection in my L5, apparently day 3 of the injection I could start feeling better. Been put on a 3 month waiting list for surgery although, dr is hoping my body will absorb the bulge.

Anyways, i guess i am here just looking for even the dimmest of lights at the end of this tunnel because i am going insane. The mental toll of not being able to do a single thing or be independent is also becoming alarming.