The second night while in the hospital I started suffering severe sciatic pain on the side of surgery. The next morning I was released in excruciating pain and running a fever. The pain subsided in 4 days only to come back exactly 2 weeks post-op. Everyday I am in great pain. One thing with ruptured disc that the symptoms are so different and you really feel you are going crazy.
Smoking is the worst thing for back problems.
It restricts the blood flow. Everyone has pleaded with her including her doctor to stop smoking to give her back a chance to heal. My personal experience with PT's was a big waste of time. Epidurals will not work on a ruptured disc, I was told that after having 2 of them. So much money down the drain.