Sciatica pain help
Hey everyone,
Im sorry if I’m not making this post correctly, I am new to posting on reddit. Im a 26 year old man dealing with intense sciatic nerve pain.
According to my doctors, my mri has shown I have spinal stenosis and most of my discs are bulging causing this issue.
About 2 months ago, I had gotten a spinal injection, along with pt, and that helped the pain a lot till yesterday when i was having worse pain than i was having before my injection, my wonderful fiancé has been helping me up and down from the bed, couch, etc.
I had an appointment with my orthopedic specialist today who broke it down as i have two options.
Option 1) do a couple more sessions of pt, try another injection, wait and see but over all would still suggest back surgery
Option 2) do a couple more sessions of pt, for insurance reasons, and go for back surgery
I had went with option 1 cause I’m not a huge fan of doctors or surgeries already but now im trying to think if i made the right choice. Im worried that ill be out of work for a while and am not sure what to say or do for work to get them to understand. Any advice, words of encouragement, or wisdom would help tremendously and i will try to respond to comment as much as i can.
Thank you!