- Location
- Goodwood, ON
I have DDD too along with a number of other disk related things. Get an inversion table. It's the best thing you can do. Decompress with it at least once per day. A couple minutes of hanging upside down often makes the pain go away completely for me until I compress the discs enough to touch nerves again, which could be from being on my feet too long or lifting heavy things, but sometimes the pain stays away all day.So I have been having sciatica pain on and off for a year now, they tried cortisone injections and several meds I couldn't take , so finally I got a referral to physical therapy and a bunch of X-rays done.
Degenerative discs in my back and very little movement in my left hip which my back is trying to compensate for causing swelling and irritation , so Monday I go in for more X-rays and Friday back for more physical therapy , but they are talking hip replacement surgery pending on what the X-rays show.
As for the hernia, we have a clinic not far from me that does the repair without mesh. It's a permanent fix. People come from around the world to get their hernias repaired, or a repair of the previous repair. I'm going on nearly ten years since I got my hernia fixed by them and it's still like it never happened. I hear from a lot of people who get the mesh repair that they can feel it and it hurts sometimes. I couldn't believe how many people were there to get their mesh removed and hernia fixed again. The hospital is called Shouldice. Hernias are the only thing they do. Check the cost of flights and consider having them do it.