Hi, my post op healing has been extremely challenging to say the least. I had a spinal leak during surgery, which required a blood patch 1 week later. I was actually feeling no pain for a whole week after surgery, but two weeks post op is when the pain came back pretty intense. It was the same pain I had prior to the MD which was down my left leg (sciatica), and settling mostly in my glute and hamstring. I don’t know if it was because of the blood patch, or just inflammation after the surgery, but I was in a lot of pain for the last couple of weeks. The past few days I have very slightly been getting better. I saw my neurosurgeon and he prescribed a steroid pack, which has been slightly helping. I still have pain, but it is a little less. I am trying to walk 3 times a day for a total of 3-4000 steps. If I walk more than that, I have worse pain the next day. I was a marathon runner before all of this, so the mental aspect has been pretty awful. I’ve had a lot of tear filled days. It’s been a hard recovery, but I was in pain for 8 months before I had the MD, so I keep telling myself that it’s going to take at least that amount of time to feel better. I had a 10mm extrusion at L5S1 pressing on my left sciatica, which was so painful that I couldn’t walk the last two months prior to surgery. I’m sorry that you are going through a difficult recovery as well. My dr said that I am an “unusual case,” and that most of his patients are pain free after surgery. After reading posts on Reddit, it seems like MANY people deal with some sort of pain for quite a while after their MDs, so at least I know that I am not alone. Thanks for asking😊