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A 43-year-old male asked:
i had a l4-l5 discectomy 5 months ago and still have lots of lower back pain in the mornings mostly, will it ever heal completely?
3 doctor answers • 7 doctors weighed in
Dr. Amin Ashrafzadehanswered
Ophthalmology 24 years experience
Sore topic!: Back surgery helps in many cases, but certainly falls shy of expected results more often than not!
hope it gets better!
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Dr. Nathaniel Drourranswered
Pain Management 29 years experience
Pain after surgery: Nervous tissue takes a long time to heal. You must wait anywhere from 6mo up to 1 full year after surgery to see what u r left with.
Hope this helps.
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Dr. Ki-Hon Linanswered
Orthopedic Surgery 25 years experience
Talk to your doctor: I counsel my patients that the primary goal of a discectomy is to relieve a pinched nerve, which thereby will relieve pain radiating down the leg. Relief of back pain is not the main goal of a discectomy, although sometimes we get lucky and the back pain does get better. Back pain can be much trickier to treat and surgery is often not the answer for that, so see your surgeon to discuss options.
4.3k viewsReviewed >2 years ago
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A 51-year-old female asked:
A friend gets a severe pain on her lower right side of her abdomen and her tongue feels numb. What can this be? Her gallbladder was removed 3years ago
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Dr. Andrew Glantzanswered
General Surgery 38 years experience
Probably unrelated: Abdominal pain and tongue numbness are likely unrelated. Many things can cause right sided abdominal pain, even after gallbladder removal. The most common things that cause tongue numbness is tongue swelling, most commonly due to allergies or poisonings.
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A 24-year-old female asked:
Is a heating pad or i've better for kidney pain? Er said I had a UTI but i'm not really having bladder problems, it's just my left kidney.
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Dr. Roscoe Nelsonanswered
Urology 28 years experience
Neither: If it's a stone not much but medication and passing the stone will help. My condolences.
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