Rods in the spine... This is the same surgery that’s been recommended for me.
The spinal doctor told me that I’d probably still be in pain, but that it would just be different after the surgery. My pain-management dr said that everyone who gets this surgery ends up at his place.
Honestly, I’m just too chicken to do it. Yes, I’m in pain, but I know and understand this pain. I can work around it. I can live with it.
“Rods” isn’t exactly what the thing that dad got was called.
It actually looked a lot like those squeeze hair clip things we wore in the 80s except that it’s straight instead of curved.
[”banana clips” or something like that]
My aunt got them and is *perfectly* fine and pain free.
Because the doctor botched the initial surgery so badly, dad was not so lucky.
We now have a neuro clinic in town with very good surgeons who do this all the time locally instead of how things were back when my dad had to go to down the city and have it done.
Have you tried a TENS unit?
I pray that you get some relief.
I know how miserable it is.