Increasing numbness, decreasing pain
Hey guys I (27M) have a question for you. Has anyone encountered the pain getting better, but numbness getting worse?
My physical therapist told me I shouldn’t walk so long that I feel numbness, but I’m practically numb in my foot all the time now.
Bonus info: I started symptoms 1,5 years ago and got an MRI in march/april. It’s a herniated disc L5/S1 with some protrusion in other places. It’s absolute recess stenosis with extra on the right. I understood it so that numbness and the pain doesn’t come from the same place? Just sounds weird. The numbness started in January, pain January last year. And numbness has been increasing ever since, while the pain started getting better in march/april. I started exercising April aswell.
I feel really stuck and my entire life revolves around my back. Especially now that I can’t even walk longer than 2 minutes.
The surgeon dismissed me and sent me to a back clinic last week. Idk what to do.
Any tips or suggestions? Would be very appreciated, thank you for reading.