Struggling with Chronic Back Pain and Seeking Advice

See if you can find a chiropractor that will treat you gentle. Ultrasound, laser, Ems, heat maybe light massage. My chiropractor has total saved me. I see her 2x a week for pain control.

Also if you smoke it also makes the fusion a lot harder

Also I wanna add that after a year to year and a half if you still have pins and needles then it’s gonna be permanent as long as it’s not worse it if it does get worse so you get a new symptoms then you get checked out again my three fingers on my left hand or permanently numb, pins and needles and my right foot is kind of to and I am almost 4 years

Hi I had a spinal fusion in my neck ACDF C3 to 6 my back bulging desk generic this disease it sucks I don’t take medicine so I suffer definitely I try to do Tylenol and ibuprofen and some natural creams but it’s not really helpful but I keep trying if I were you I definitely would go to where you think you’re going to get the most help and get another opinion this is such a horrible surgery to go through it’s long lasting and it could take years and years for the pain to get a little bit better not everybody though some people have better luck with this. Hope you get the help