Stonehedge-
Don't be, best thing that happened to me for ages - over a year of unbearable sciatic pain went away pretty much overnight!
The surgeon found a hole in the lining around my spinal cord though which had been made by one of the discs entering the spinal canal and puncturing a hole in the lining. So that had to be patched up (with 'paper and glue' in his words, lol) then I had five nights of flat bed rest which was about as much fun as it sounds.
He also had to take that disc out, untangle the nerve from around it then put it back in again 😬
I'm very lucky I had such a skilled surgeon. Recovery was going great until I got covid! I was told at the post-op I was on track to recover as if the hole and bed rest stuff had never happened. I'd been walking an average of five miles a day since the operation and had built up to doing half an hour of pilates physio exercises for core strength too.
I'd been doing this for a month so was actually fitter than I'd been for ages (given I basically had to stop exercising) and I've lost 2kg since the op.
I reckon this is all helping now with the covid - the thing I'm most bothered about right now is that I can't leave the house for a walk for another eight days...
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Thanks Ed. So far it pretty much feels like flu but with no symptoms other than being a bit snotty (apart from for the first few days) so I'm pretty hopeful.
I came out of hospital after a fairly major spine op five weeks ago today so I was being very very careful - seeing people outside when I did, wearing an FFP2 mask when I had to get transport (still can't ride yet), washing hands lots etc. So presuming the PCR comes back positive it just shows how transmissible it is.