UPDATE
How's the recovery comin along Jim?
hey brother sorry for the late reply and thanks for asking, my back seems to be getting better! Since surgery I haven't had the numbness and pain I did after being on my feet for only a couple minutes which was completely waist down. I take a few minutes walks about twice a day and no real pain while doing so, my balance is a little off sometimes but not bad. Still obviously have back pain and some pain from the iliac crest screws they put in but nothing like recently after the surgery. My biggest issues is still having some bad nerve pain in my feet which when it started was pretty unbearable but it has improved some and is mostly just in my right foot now. I am now using a bone stimulator so hopefully that is helping, I am suppose to get another CT towards the end of the month and see my neurosurgeon the beginning of next month so I am interested in finding out what it shows.
Here's the real BS my primary writes all my pain meds and meds post surgery as the surgeon does not write scripts. Just the other day they called me and told me I failed my drug test which was a false positive since I only take exactly what she prescribes me. So I would normally be seeing her next week to refill my scripts and am on 6 10mg Percocet/day, she also prescribes Valium(which is a Benzo) which I am don't take much of cause it makes tired and am going to be discontinuing it soon, I also take a muscle relaxer, and gabapentin. They called and told me I failed my drug test and am on other Benzos(things I have never even heard of) as well as the Valium and dismissed me as a patient. So know I am left with a little more than a week of my normal Percocet dose that I am just supposed to ween my self off of in about a week! So I did some research and the failed drug test(false positive) is due to the way the Valium Metabolizes and states it in the FDA Valium insert package. I told them about it and they didn't give a fck and acted like I was wrong cause the urine test is soo reliable and wasn't even allowed to talk to my Dr. Below I will paste the metabolism part of the valium insert from the FDA which are the exact drugs that showed up in my system. So know I'm trying to find a Dr. that will help me before I have to deal with a very unpleasant withdrawl and more pain.
Metabolism
Diazepam is N-demethylated by CYP3A4 and 2C19 to the active metabolite N-desmethyldiazepam, and is hydroxylated by CYP3A4 to the active metabolite temazepam. N-desmethyldiazepam and temazepam are both further metabolized to oxazepam. Temazepam and oxazepam are largely eliminated by glucuronidation.