24 Hours After L5-S1 Microdiscectomy

Well, what's going on? This is the first day. It's been 24

hours

since my surgery. After L5 S1

microdiscectomy

operation. I thought I'd do an update. I'm watching football, which is something I never do. watching Twitch I tried streaming that didn't really work, for some reason my PC is just slow even though there's a 30 70 on there, kind of weird uh yeah so I thought I'd do an update. I was going to do an update on the second day because that's when people say it hurts the most, like day two and three, but yeah, if you want to see, I have the patch right there, I don't know how many stitches or whatever they did to me. , I don't know. how big the incision was, everyone on YouTube says it's like I don't know half a pinky, so yeah, I feel good, I mean I'm off the meds, but before I stopped them I felt great too, last night, I woke up .

I wake up like 15 minutes after surgery, uh, with the anesthesia, stuff like that, man, anesthesia is no joke, man, they hooked me up to the IV. The last thing I remember was one of the nurses or one of the medical assistants saying, "Okay, this is going to happen." It hurt a little bit, boom, that's all I remember and people were like, oh you might have been awake a little longer, but don't wait because I don't remember. That's the last thing I remember. I remember him saying that and then it came out instantly it was crazy um he must have plugged his

hours

without juice buddy um I'm not on medication anymore right now uh I take one every six hours or every time I feel pain um I usually feel more pain after I get out of the bag , do the rollout, you know, get up, push yourself off the bed with your hands, my bed is a little low to the floor, but I have that nightstand that helps me too.

I have a potholder here, um, so let me. Go over everything you can see there, let me explain everything I had to do. I went, I stayed at my mother's house last night, she insisted, right? I was able to do many things. walking right away I can still walk a lot. I didn't take any pain pills until right before bed last night, so I probably had about four or five hours where I walked completely fine. I know if it was like that, I don't know what they gave me to make me feel good, but I couldn't sleep last night either, so there's no way they put me on harsh medications because I couldn't sleep last night. um, I took two painkillers and I could barely sleep last night.

I slept for about three hours total and I'm wide awake. I had some sugar and, like two cookies, I had a protein shake. some come in and out, uh, shout out, Eddie, Eddie is real, he came, he left work early and then, uh, not to help me, but it just happened and then he stopped with some in and out, so shout out to Eddie for throw. I got ready for the Internet, uh, yeah, well, once I woke up from my three-hour nap because I fell asleep at like five in the morning, even though it's recorded that I slept for like seven hours, I ended up falling asleep around five in the morning.

Around nine I asked my sister to take me home. I'm here now. I have a roommate. She is not at home at the moment. This grabber has been working wonders once I got here. I ended up taking a shower. My shower is going to be difficult because. I have to bend down and pull a little ring under the faucet, pull it down and that's what makes the shower head turn on, so I don't really know how I'm going to do that because the Grabber isn't doing the job. I had to ask my sister to help me before she left.

Maybe I'll ask my roommate to turn on the water every time. I'm not sure I need to do anything about that. They told me not to get wet, so what's wrong? It's weird, before the surgery a guy talked to me and told me that putting water on him wasn't going to be a big deal, but then the nurse told me not to put water on him, so I'm just going to leave. I just didn't put any water on it, so today I took a front shower and didn't really wash my back much. I think some water got in there because I had to rinse my hair because my hair is really swollen. uh but overall I feel good um laying down put a little I put a pillow uh under my legs to feel like you're still aligned I don't want my back to sag that's what a lot of people say there's not a lot of instructions coming out of the hospital I'm not going to lie, I don't like it, they didn't really tell me much about how to get out of bed and stuff like that, I just don't know, I just did it based on YouTube Videos I've been watching.

I feel good, although I feel like I have to keep saying that, but I do. I see you tomorrow. I'm going to try drinking more protein, see if that helps, because protein leads to muscle recovery um and I know based on the videos I've seen on L5 S1 uh, the muscle is altered and so is the nerve, but the sciatica is gone completely right after. I think I felt it a little before. like on the left side of my left ankle, but before the surgery I had decided to go down to the foot, uh, my left foot, all the way down, uh, it hurt to walk, you can see the video above. seeing me complain about it and before I felt it a little from time to time, the nerve vibrates a little if I'm lying a certain way, um, but of course, it's not going to be 100, it flips the nerve. be 100, but so far man, it's crazy, my friend Eddie was here for a couple of hours and I felt like I couldn't stop talking about it or just how I can stand and how I'm standing well.

It's crazy how something is so simple that so many people can do. I couldn't do it. I couldn't really do all that kind of stuff. So I stayed like this for minutes, 30 minutes, hours, I was walking around my mom's house I was walking around this apartment I was like relaxing and I feel really good um the part that hurts the most is when I'm sitting so I'm going to do that and I only know this because when I go to sit on my raised toilet seat, I feel the pressure and I feel a little bit of pressure in my lower back right now, but I prefer to have this slight amount of pressure on my lower back than any sciatic nerve discomfort. and this is only 24 hours after surgery, um, I don't know what I'm going to do.

The Mario trailer came out, the Mario movie trailer came out, Need for Speed ​​Unbound came out, the She-Hulk episode came out, I watched it three times because a friend of mine was going to watch it. I saw it alone last night and then another honored friend saw it. It's a good episode. Daredevils in it. You know I'm talking about spoilers. I don't know, I don't know what. I will say that I think the drugs are talking, but believe me, it's not that I don't have pain relief like the sciatic nerve is not better because of that drug, the back pressure is better because of that drug, um, the sciatic nerve disappeared instantly, um, and we hope it stays that way.

Some people say it comes back for a while and disappears again completely, but we're just going to pray it's still there. playing games here I was playing games all day, but I tried my best not to stand in one position, so I move around a lot like this, you know, I do some back pedaling, you know, I do something like that if I'm in the central hall and I do something like this, you know, with small steps, but I feel like I can walk well. There are times when I have a small space between my desk and my bed, so I have to make one of these.

I have to do one of these on the side, but even that feels good. I hope this progress continues again. I'm going to continue trying to like doing muscle recovery like the type of foods I'm going to try to be with. eating a lot of protein and uh, I don't know fats, I guess I don't want to gain a lot of weight during this recovery process since I'm not going to work, um, but I don't know, so I'll do my best to eat well. Have some protein shakes in the morning. Things like that. Great, also interesting stuff since I had blood work done.

My blood is fine too. My blood. My heart rate. Things like that. My heart. heart is fine, um, so that's what's up, the nurse told me that, uh, she was like I don't know why people don't tell you, but you look good here, uh, I'll be in position and I I was like cool, um, but yeah, I'm only going to take those painkillers if I really need them, if I really feel any discomfort or if I don't want to feel the discomfort that I feel other than that day one recovery L5 S1 pretty good, 10 out of 10 so far or maybe not 10 out of 10, but you know what I mean much better than I thought.

Some people say you might not be able to poop after taking those pills and I think I believe that. that's right, I did, I had a drop of Deuce before, very good, very good, although I didn't like it very much, my butt didn't feel too weird. I just did one of those things where I was squatting slightly, very, very slightly. I squatted and then I reached I'm not a big person so I can get there pretty efficiently without having to twist or anything like that and then I just do a little check and clean again and do a check and say what the heck for what's still there friend?

But yeah, in other news, he was approved for a house my friends and I are moving into next month. I don't know how I'm going to do that. It sucks to get rid of money. when you don't have a source of income but you know that's what you have to live on for a while, you know that hopefully you'll be back to work in about two months, even if it's light work, who cares, who cares, really eh, yeah, anyway. That's right, I might post a video tomorrow or maybe if there's any change in how I feel, I'll post a video or give an update a week on my L5 S1 micro discectomy post-op. um, yeah, overall, pretty good vibe, uh, obviously.

I'm not a doctor, but man, I wish I could. I could have done this sooner because sciatica nerve is simply not a quality of life you will ever want to live and I hope I never have to live it again. I'm only saying this 24 hours into recovery, which is crazy, it's actually crazy. I'll let them go. I'll see you in the next video, okay, peace.