If we could bottle the amount of energy spent on worrying, we could electify the world!
All kidding aside, I've walked in those shoes and at times, still do. Radiating pain is something, probably disc material, pressing on the nerves in your spine. From my experience, it's quite difficult to control nerve pain except with potent pain killers unless you go on longer term Neurontin or something like it.
Numbness, same mechanism but a little more serious, can take a long time to come back or can even become permanant. I have two circles of permanant numbness on my right leg (the good one) when my disc ruptured. I had surgery within 1 week with permanant damage.
So my advice to anyone who is worrying or stressed about new symptoms - call your doctor. The stress makes everything worse and you're not in a good place. We can reassure you or scare you but your doctor is your goto person. Please call ASAP if for nothing other than to put your mind at ease.
Dale
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3 level Prodisc adr S1-L3, Oct 12, 2005
Dr. B in Bogen, Germany
Severe nerve damage in left leg, still working on it
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