Online diagnoses are not the real deal, although web sites, such as the Mayo Clinic, offer a lot of facts and information to help one find the right questions to ask. Your physician is your best bet. Asking reputable people for physician recommendations is also a must – especially when it comes to surgery.
If I had just looked on web sites for medical information about surgery for a bulging disk I would never have been able to decide whether or not that was a serious option for me. Talking with an orthopedic surgeon directly and hearing from the person who would do the surgery about exactly what it entailed, helped me to make the decision to have the procedure that finally eased the pain in my hip and leg. It turned out to be a 45 minute day-surgery with a two week recuperation period. Actually it was longer than two weeks recuperation, but from the moment I came out of the recovery room, I felt cured.
If I had just looked on web sites for medical information about surgery for a bulging disk I would never have been able to decide whether or not that was a serious option for me. Talking with an orthopedic surgeon directly and hearing from the person who would do the surgery about exactly what it entailed, helped me to make the decision to have the procedure that finally eased the pain in my hip and leg. It turned out to be a 45 minute day-surgery with a two week recuperation period. Actually it was longer than two weeks recuperation, but from the moment I came out of the recovery room, I felt cured.
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