Thank you. I called NS today and told them that I continue to have sciatic pain, mostly in my calf, and mostly after about 5 minutes of walking, as it feels very tight and then may spasm. It will calm down after I stop but then I’ll feel it at a low grade for a while. They told me to continue walking through it as long as there is no swelling and that this is normal as the nerve calms itself down. I know it has only been six days, but I’m very concerned about a remaining fragment, seroma, or reherniation. I still have a positive SLR (mostly pain in calf) at about 30 degrees. Prior to surgery, I could not tolerate NS even doing the SLR.
I don’t know if it’s because my L5/S1 discectomy was done kind of urgently (two weeks after symptoms started and day after I saw NS) because I had significant weakness, but none of these post op feelings were explained to me. I was told they needed to do surgery given my complete inability to do a toe raise and that they would go in, relieve the pressure on the nerve, and that it was not major surgery. At what point should I ask for another MRI? I see him July 1, 3 weeks post surgery.
