Left Hip Pain After Lumbar Fusion

I am 20 months post spinal fusion of the l5 s1.

Left hip pain after lumbar fusion.

I am reluctant to go to the doctors as i know they. I experience sciatica on my right leg and most frequent on left leg shooting pain down my right left hip buttocks goes down the back of the leg. The hallmark of this is pain that is gone initially after surgery but then spontaneously returns. Crucial time for fusion.

Lets let the surgeons take over from here. During this time period of about 1 to 3 months after the surgery the lumbar fusion bone mass is becoming established. I have had 3 surgeries in 2 years but now i am suffering with painful hips leg pain i am used to due to nerve damage. My second surgery march 2015 anterior lumbar interbody fusion alif surgery on l4 l5 s1 with cage implants and bone grafts harvested from my own hip bone.

See getting adequate pain control after back surgery. It could be that you re using muscles differently due to pain or caution of your back. Pain is likely to continue to decrease gradually but some patients continue to have pain 3 to 6 months after surgery. Hip spine syndrome is born after doctors notice patients still have pain after hip replacement and spinal fusion above we described people with hip pain after spinal fusion and back pain after hip replacement because surgery addressed the wrong issue.

Cross notes that si joints normally move less than 1 millimeter. Hip pain could be from a lot of things. Research has established that the si joint is the source of pain in nearly half of patients who experience new or continued low back pain after fusion surgery. Surgery failed no improvement.

Common occurrences after lumbar spinal fusion. Hi i have been reading through these comments and ur plight is very similar to my own. Postoperative inflammation of the nerve root can mimic a recurrent disc with a return of pain 2 7 days after surgery but will usually subside with time and rehabilitation. It could be nerve irritation which takes a long time to calm down.

I don t know if the hardware itself could cause it but maybe it s pressing on a nerve. One of the main reasons for this is that when a piece of disc is removed that was herniated and pressing on a nerve root the remaining spinal disk does not regenerate that tissue. When conservative treatments such as medication chiropractic adjustment or physical therapy fail to yield results some may opt for surgery. Pain and instability in the vertebral joints of the lower spine cause many people to seek medical help.