one myth
It could be myth it could be fact just depending on the individual:
wait until you get older as your spine will fuse on it's own and the pain will stop.
Ok ... so two discectomies later, two rebulges later, 2nd surgery failing terribly with majorly increased pain for many years and finally from point of first diagnosis with bulging disc at L5S1 in '82, discectomy in '89 and then surgery above that level.. was told in 2010 that there was autofusion at the L5S1 level.
For me personally much reduced pain at this level, painful neuropathies mostly gone after 18 years and activity level increased, sitting ability increased (tho not for hours just to what it was before the 2nd surgery pretty much or a bit better).
For some it might be a myth re autofusion allowing for pain relief and for me I think it's reality tho again that's given my own clinical picture, healing and so forth. Not that I don't have pain just not tailbone pain anymore and not the same as bad as it used to be).
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