Sciatic pain after microdiscectomy

[reflection]

14. update: 3 weeks later,

with walking once a day, and doing floor exercises, the pain is largely gone. I am still stiff in the mornings but the pain is mitigated to a great degree. I still don't feel structurally as sound as I did before the blowout, twisting to look at things to the side or behind me can still be adventurous, but progress is being made. I don't even take the gabapentin anymore. It's sitting next to the percocets on the shelf in case of another episode.

I do notice that sitting in a chair will make the back hurt though, unless I sit on a donut. So I sit on a donut and deal with the occasional jokes from my co-workers. Que sera sera.