u/SnowmanAndBandit

I have unlimited 800mbps download Xfinity and an Xfinity router at home. It’s a relatively small old house, 3 bedroom 2 bath with 2 living rooms, and my router has to be in my spare bedroom on the first floor in the corner of the house as thats the only cable outlet. It’s been fine for a while but lately im having trouble with my Xbox series x and multiplayer games. It keeps switching to 2.4ghz even though the signal strength is 95% and I get 50mbps download, 30 mbps upload, high latency (80-1140) and packet loss of 2%

My router has the option to split into 2.4ghz and 5ghz and when I did that the Xbox was better but then everything else dropped massively on the 2.4ghz connection. I did a speed test on my iPad (WiFi only) before splitting it and got 600 download / 200 upload, after I split it I was getting 40 download / 2 upload. But Ive heard that 5ghz doesn’t have great signal strength so I dont know what GHz to put the phones and tvs and such on

Anyone have any advice?

Im 16 days post op for my L5 discectomy. I had sciatica for 5 ish years and it’s always been worse in the mornings. The first week after post op I had 0 sciatica signs or symptoms. The last 4 or 5 days im back to having some mild sciatica symptoms when I wake up, butt cramp and soreness in eg, but it usually goes away a few hours after I wake up. Im not sure it’s from me rolling around at night and sleeping weird (I sleep on my side with a pillow between my legs but then I end up twisting my torso so im like on my stomach but my legs are still on their sides) or if im trying to do too much during the day bending over sometimes or what. Was this normal for anyone or is it a bad sign?

I wasn’t sure if its the newest BF6 update but the last week Ive been getting insane packet loss (30-60) and high ping (200-1200) while playing conquest on larger maps. I had no issues before the update so I figured it was that but then I ran a network statistics test and I cant tell if this is bad results or how to fix them. For reference im on a Series X ive had for 5 ish years

Download: 40mbps
Upload: 24 mbps
Latency: 67 ms
Packet loss: 1%
Strength: 86%
MTU: 1480

But I just did a speed test on my iPad same WiFi:
Download: 438 Mbps
Upload: 65 Mbps
Ping: 12

Im on the same WiFi sitting right next to my Xbox. Ive never had this problem before and everything ran and downloaded fine. I haven’t noticed connections issues in games like Sea of Thieves or Helldivers so I thought it was a BF issue but the network test has me wondering why it’s so much worse and what I can do?

Hardwiring is not an option my router has to stay in another room because of how the house is setup

Im 29 I originally herniated my L5 disc in 2019, and again in 2022. Both times I got an MRI and they sent me to physical therapy which helped at the time but it always came back worse then ever. A month ago my sciatica was flaring up but I just kept working through it as I have a family now and im the breadwinner. I started limping 2 weeks later, then woke up one morning with the worst pain in my leg ive ever had, I couldn’t feel my leg when I touched it, and I fell on the ground getting ready for work. I went to the ER where they wanted a stat MRI and told me the disc was majorly ruptured.

I had a discectomy two weeks after that (so last Saturday) and it went great. They told me it was a lot worse once they were in there and took a lot of fragmented disc out. The pan first week was horrible, but it was just the incision area. My sciatica has been gone since post op day 1 and hasn’t come back. Im getting muscle cramps in my butt and behind me knee sometimes but its very manageable and I stopped all pain meds day 4.

What’s not going well at all is my mental health. Im a Forman for a crane company and I really do love what I do. My co workers are like my second family, my phones been going off since I’ve been out and a few of them visited me at home. Im used to being up very early, 3-4am and working 60+ hours a week. Im going absolutely insane sitting at home. Im making a quarter of what I made with overtime because my states medical leave has a cap on it, and the cap isn’t even a 40 hours straight time check for me. Im seeing a ton of signs of depression. I dont want to do anything anymore, I collect transformers figures and Ive had one sitting unopened on my counter for 2 weeks that I was exited to get. Ive been playing video games but even those dont hold me long. I love cooking and was able to cook once this week, but I cant move as fast or grab half the pans under the counters or clean as I go so it’s just not enjoyable. I cant play with my daughter because it’s uncomfortable to sit on the floor, I cant even pick her up. I barely have money to pay the bills let alone do anything fun to take my mind off things.

Im only on week 2 and they told me at minimum 12 weeks till im back at work. I cant do this that long. I feel like a shell of my former self. All I want to do is lay here and stare at the wall which is opposite of what ive always been like.

I have a Samsung 65 inch smart TV that’s around 5 or so years old. It works fine except for the remote. Even with new batteries when I press buttons it either takes 5-10 seconds to respond, or just doesn’t respond at all and I have to keep hitting the same button. I downloaded the Samsung app which has a remote on it and that works perfectly fine, I just would like to use my actual remote and not my phone anymore.

What’s going on?

I’m 29 no health problems besides obviously a ruptured L5 disc. Had no feeling and extreme pain down my left leg prior to surgery. I had a discectomy at L5 last Saturday and it went really well, they said it was worse then they thought but I’ve had 0 sciatic pain and only had really bad incision pain the first 2 days. My wife’s been changing my dressing and now I just have the steri strips and aside from a little blood the first 2 days it looks fine.

The last 4 days I’ve been getting horrible headaches. They’re either across the whole front of my forehead from temple to temple, or they’re along the back of my head where a hat ends if that makes sense. When they’re bad I’m super sensitive to lights and loud noises. The thing that’s not like most csf leak stories I’ve seen is they’re the same whether I’m laying down or standing. Caffeine helps only slightly and I’m drinking water.

I never got headaches before surgery. Once in a great while I would when I hadn’t had enough caffeine (I work construction so energy drinks are often). I don’t think it’s a csf leak and I figured it was stress but it’s not going away and the Tylenol I’m on isn’t helping it. I have no other symptoms besides I’m incredibly exhausted today but haven’t been until now I also didn’t sleep enough the last 2 nights though.

Is this csf or probably just stress

I’m 8 days post op from an L5 discectomy, had insane muscle pain and numbness down my leg for weeks prior to surgery and had a major disc rupture. Things have been going pretty good since surgery and I’ve been able to walk without much of any pain or anything besides my incision being sore.

I was at home and the power company came by to replace the meter in the house I’m renting and when the power cycled it somehow armed a security system I had no idea we had. The loudest alarm I’ve ever heard was going off inside my house and outside and the entire neighborhood could hear it and people were pulling up asking if everything was okay. I was frantically on the phone with the landlord, ran downstairs to try and shut the breakers off and then had to bend down and pick up my small dog so she didn’t attack the owner when he showed up.

I’m laying down now and when I stand up I’m having moderate pain down my leg in my calf area and now I’m scared I just messed it up. Nothing hurt in the moment and I didn’t feel anything like a pop or pain but I was also insanely stressed. Did I just mess this up or simply aggravate the nerves

Myself, my wife and 2 year old daughter finally found a place last September that we love. We’re outside Boston and she teaches near the city and I work for a crane company servicing Boston, and we couldn’t afford to buy anything even remotely close to the city that wasn’t a total shithole, and with at the time a 1 year old and me working 60+ hours it wasn’t doable having a fixer upper. Our landlord is pretty nice, they own a restraunt downtown and have their own house somewhere in the area because I’ve seen their husband on walks, but they still get some mail to our house so I don’t know where it is not that it matters. They told us they were looking for long term renters and the last tenants were there 2 years. They told us they’d only think of moving back in to downsize in 10+ years when their kids are grown up.

In the year we’ve been here a few things have broken, dryer stopped drying, garbage disposal broke, the oil tank leaked and needed to be replaced, and a few fence posts needed to be fixed because the fence is old and fell over in the wind and it looks like they already replaced a few. There’s some smaller issues like the screen door breaking or the doorbell not working that I didn’t want to bother them with and was probably just going to fix myself because I don’t want them to think we’re destroying the place.

Anyways our lease is up in September and they told us to let them know 60 days in advance if we want to renew or else it would go month to month after that. I haven’t been able to relax in the whole year we’ve been here. Like we’re trying to plant a vegetable garden in these raised planter things and get lawn furniture but in the back of my mind I’m just worried they’ll be like yeah you have to move out. We’ve always been on time with rent and try and take good care of the property. How do I stop stressing about this or is it just something I have to live with

I had an L5 discectomy last Saturday and it went great. Went home that day, changed my bandage daily until day 3 when they said if it wasn’t leaking I could stop wearing it which the bandage was always dry when I changed it no leaks. I had bad incision pain days 2-3 but then it’s been mostly uphill since. I stopped taking oxys day 3 and I’ve been taking the Tylenol on a schedule and muscle relaxers as needed.

Yesterday afternoon I started getting a horrible headache. Sometimes it’s near my ears, once in a while it’s in the back but mainly it’s from one temple, all the way across my forehead, to the other temple. Last night I went to the movies because they had recliners and it got so bad I almost had to leave halfway. Tylenol doesn’t seem to be helping. I woke up this morning with it, though not nearly as bad as last night.

Can anyone just calm my nerves and tell me this is from anxiety or allergies and not a CSF leak? I have no other symptoms besides just nerve pain and cramping which I made another post about. I just never really got headaches in general until now

I had sciatica for many years and finally got a discectomy on my L5 disc last Saturday, I had lost most of the feeling in my entire left leg and severe foot drop as well as the worst pain I’ve ever experienced in the form of what I could only describe as someone twisting my muscles. Surgery went well he said there was a lot more ruptured disc they had to take out then originally thought.

Pain so far has only been around the incision site. First two days were horrendous and I was taking my Tylenol, oxy and muscle relaxer on a rigorous schedule. Day 3 was awesome and day 3-4 I was only on the Tylenol. Last night and today however, when I stand up to walk I get a really bad shooting cramp pain in my butt and upper left thigh. My left butt cheek is also slightly numb to the touch. All I’ve been doing is laying down or walking around. Trying to eat all my meals standing up as sitting I can only do for 20 ish minutes.

I’ve started taking the muscle relaxer again and it’s helping only somewhat. This is nowhere near the muscle cramp pain I had before but it’s enough that I’m concerned about it. Is this normal healing or a step backward?

I had a discectomy on my L5 disc Saturday morning. Up till now I have been dealing with sciatica since 2019, MRI once then and once in 2022 for a herniated L5 disc PT both times which only made it manageable and then it would come back. The last 2 months it was so bad I couldn’t walk, was dragging my leg behind me, 10/10 pain constantly and my leg would go completely numb.

Surgery went well and I woke up with 0 sciatica symptoms! The worst pain has been from my incision and my entire lower back is tight. I’ve been taking oxys as needed, and then Tylenol and my muscle relaxer as prescribed. Today the pain was much better and I haven’t had an oxy since last night. I still can’t lay on my back much because the incision hurts but I feel like laying on my side makes me sore and twist too much. I tried to eat my meals while standing today and walked a good amount.

I was able to sit up a lot today with no pain. My doctor didn’t really mention anything about sitting but I sat and played Xbox for like an hour twice today. Now my left foot is slightly numb again and I’m getting worried I overdid it.

I think I’ve heard that sciatica symptoms coming back are normal but did I already mess this up? It’s nowhere near how it was before surgery but it’s just weird I went from 0 symptoms after surgery to now it’s numb again slightly.

I had a discectomy at 29 in my L5 disc yesterday at 10am. Surgery went well it went 20 minutes longer then it was planed to because he found a lot more rupture disc behind my S1 nerve then they had thought. Yesterday I was still on the high of anesthesia but woke up at 4am with the worst pain I’ve ever had around the incision. Like someone had a knife in my back and when I moved it slid in and out.

I’ve been taking my 4mg muscle relaxer and 1000mg Tylenol as prescribed and trying to do without the 5mg oxys but it keeps getting so bad I have to take them. Today I took one at 10am and was fine until 8pm where again it’s like someone’s stabbing me in and out with a knife where the incision is and my whole lower back muscle area is like locked up and tight. I can’t put any pressure on the incision so all I can do is stand or lay on my side.

Is this normal? I’m really freaking out

I’m 29 finally had a Descectomy done yesterday on L5. First surgery ever too! My sciatic pain is near gone and I can move my leg with so much more strength now. The only part right now is the actual surgical site is absolutely killing me. It’s like someone stuck a knife in my back and it moves in and out when I sit up. Once I’m standing or laying it’s not bad.

I was prescribed 5mg oxycodone, 1000mg Tylenol, and 4mg zanaflex. I used to just take ibuprofen for my sciatic pain but can’t take that anymore and I never get much relief from Tylenol. The oxy is for every 4 hours 1-2 tablets and I kept trying to stretch it out and go longer without them yesterday but then the pain was back ten fold.

I did get away with only taking 1 two times yesterday 4pm and 8pm) but then woke up around midnight with the absolute worst pain I’ve ever felt because every pain medicine wore off at once.

I’m just so afraid to keep taking these and the stigma against them. I’ve lost 2 people I knew to overdoses that started with oxy, my dads in the drug unit at the sheriff department he works at so there’s that, and I have an addictive personality like when I find a new hobby I go all in and obsess over it. The good thing is I’ve never been a drug person. I tried weed once and hated it and refused to try any other drug. I also don’t really feel high or anything else from these it’s just the pain relief I want.

My herniated disc is flaring up for the 3rd time since 2019 and this time I can’t use my left leg much and it’s the worst pain it’s ever been. Went to ER and got an MRI and saw a surgeon and his NP last week who said it’s at the point I need a Descectomy to take out the ruptured disc.

I had my pre op in person visit Tuesday and the nurse practitioner I’ve been seeing asked about smoking or anything and I said I use 6mg zyns. She said you should stop because it’s bad for you, typical doctor stuff I thought. I had a phone screening today with pre op and she asked I said the same thing and she said “oh some surgeons won’t operate on someone who uses nicotine” and just that I should stop anyway.

Now I’m freaking out. Will I get there and have to do some sort of surprise urine test? I already did blood work on Tuesday and didn’t hear anything from that. I had one this morning but I’m stopping now just in case, but is 48 hours even enough time for it to leave my system? I’ve been going through about a tin (15 pouches) a day for less then a year. Used to vape heavily but that was 4 years ago.

I’m also taking my states family medical leave and I only have 20 weeks to use and I can’t have this surgery rescheduled or postponed.

EDIT: is it worth sending an email to the NP or surgeon or just leave it alone?