u/willowwitchmakes

I’m considering surgery (decompression and fusion) l5-s1 and I have hyperlordosis, I’m Wondering what useful things to have before and after surgery? I’ve been looking at stuff on Amazon but there’s just so much and I don’t know what are pointless, don’t want to waste money lol. What can’t you live without now? For me right now I can’t live without my feet and thigh supports, the compression really helps with the deep leg aches I get, although it doesn’t stop the tingling

At the time I was shocked she would suggest this as I’m only a grade 1 spondy on l5-s1 with hyperlordosis and degenerative disc disease and a healed bilateral pars defect on the l5-s1 but I get a lot of leg weakness and aches pains which are mainly controlled by amitriptyline but for the last few months ive been dealing with severe pain in the heal of my right foot, i think it’s linked to my nerve pain/referred pain from my back, it’s making it hard to walk especially when ive been resting a while. Anyway I delinked being referred as I didn’t feel I needed it but now I do, I contacted the drs but the dr I originally saw has since left, now they have got me an appointment with their specialist physio, what should I say/ask to get a referral to spinal
Specialists/surgeons like I was supposed to get? I don’t have much will power with physio alone as it hurts to damn much, what should i do? I’m interested in trying the injections although I know they are very painful but just out of interest whether they help or not. Ive seen this physio before about my back (but before we had the mri scan telling us what was going on) and she doesnt think i have foot drop but i think
I do as I tend to scuff my heals most of the time while walking, i can stop myself from doing it if i concentrate but i get fatigued quickly then too.