Two weeks after surgery my sister still had sharp right sided pain and in addition pain in her right side cheek and pain traveling to three areas of her thigh down to knee. At first surgeon dismissed problem and told her to do stretching exercises. Pain persisted, he referred her to a neurologist. Her right leg made no movement when hit to test reflex. It is now five weeks after surgery.
Pain continues and is more intense and right leg feels a little weak.
She has had another CAT Scan and just had an MRI done. The neurolgist said that if MRI shows nothing, he would do nothing more than put her on nerve medicine. Is there another test that could diagnose the source of her difficulty. She is a flight attendant with 27 year seniority who will never be able to go back to work in this shape. The surgical exploration or instrumentation itself would not have damaged anything there.