I wasn't expecting to get diagnosed fibro at my 30th year. That explains the pain during stressing moments of my life. At least I can still work, but not like I used to do.

What you got sounds horrible D; I hope things get better for you.

What does the pain feel like? I’ve heard fibro can be triggered due to traumatic injuries.

Thank you!

Everything feels very tense, and joints start to hurt a lot, not letting me draw.
Also a lot of headaches.

Ah, I had some incorrect assumptions about this. So if you don't mind me asking, what does it look like going forward? I know you have lots of PT to look forward to before you've healed in any complete sense of the word. But I also know that the surgery still helped a lot, obviously. What did the surgery do exactly? Do you know? And what will you still need to do after PT has done its job?

A decompression laminectomy is when they remove part of the spine to make room for an issue involving constriction. My herniated disk cannot be removed because it’s so calcified it might as well be part of the spine. So they had to remove the other side of the spine so my nerves aren’t stuck between a rock and a hard place.

Spinal Stenosis here. Mostly under control and not painful but...have a hard time controlling my bowels, so I get it.

It’s things like that that a lot of people don’t consider when losing control of your lower half. The bowels issue on my end was the muscles losing the ability to even move them effectively and that was one of the last signs. The first was urine ting issues when I was around 3. I’m sorry you had to go through that.

There's no way to describe to someone the feeling of not being able to run or move fast when you need to, is there?

Just specific tears