Anything you would recommend or avoid from personal experience from having a back injury? Also in my mid 30's.
Yeah, don’t be a stupid ass and lift heavy or ego lift. Competition is bad in the gym, if your not getting pay for it. Ie professional athlete.
Things I learn by getting back surgery.
-back surgery is painful as fuck.
-doctor shaved my back and ass for low back surgery.
-anesthesia fucks you up, and you won't take a poop for a couple days.
-I couldn’t pee laying and seating to save my life, in the hospital I had to walk with help to the bathroom to take a piss. I refused to let them stick a tube in my dick.
-plan on being in the hospital for 2-3 days
-dilaidid is a hell of a drug, it had me semi-hallucinating and more creative I wrote 2 songs in my head
-norco makes you itch like a mofo
-recovery is worst then the surgery.
-codeine sucks, i don't know how people take it for fun.
-my wound got infected so I'm had to see wound care people and was on antibiotics for weeks
-I learn I have issues asking people for help
-don’t try and go back to the gym early, I did and I cost me 2 weeks or intense pain.
so all in all if you can avoid back surgery, avoid it by all means. It does work though. I feel a million times better