I have spinal stenosis disk bulge etc. I am trying to avoid back surgery or am looking for info on the surgery

I am a nurse and am exploring pro and cons of back surgery vs. complimentary/alternative therapy. Can anyone enlighten me? I have been using magnetics, far-infared, massage, nutrition, wt loss, physical therapy SI belt, traction and exploring a purchase of a new sleep system @ hhtp://www.mynikken.net/winters I am also strongly thinking of going on another route with my nursing career as I am BSN educated but am also 50 and need to re-think whether to leave floor nursing .... I am told if I continue the same work and have surgery, I will just need to have additional surgeries. Any info would be greatly appreciated. FYI I am worker's comp and have been working through this whole thing for over a year. Any info or Facts and Figures would be greatly appreciated.

I'm a chiropractor & deal with spinal stenosis patients quite often. Feel free to email me & we can chat more...
Don't waste your $$$ on the nikken sleep system, they are a multi level marketing over priced magnet company. If you want to try something else, you can try acupuncture.
I don't know how severe your stenosis is, or the degree of symptoms you are having, but the surgeons I deal with generally wont operate on anyone unless it gets fairly severe.
Perhaps you could go into other types of nursing tho... my sister is a PA & just had a baby- she is now working in a Med-Spa- doing botox & restalyne & laser skin treatments & making more $$$ part time than she was full time (she use to be a surgical PA)-- something low impact like that would be good for you to do-- or working in a family practice or derm office etc. No idea if that has any appeal to you, just a few ideas.

anyway, back to your spine.....
check out this website, i often refer patients to this one for educational purposes: www.spineuniverse.com they talk about the surgical procedure itself. You may also want to get another surgical opinion.
good luck

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First of all, you will HAVE to change your job. You cannot work as a nurse standing all day with this type of back. Do you have scoliosis???????? I had to have 2 major back surgeries last yr. but i have severe scoliosis so i don't know if yours is like mine or what???? But i also had the spinal stenosis which means narrowing of that part of the back which is painful also. I did physical therapy which only made things worse. I ended up having to have my lumber fused and lost 2 inches in height. Now i have to have a total hip replacement?????????? I hope your situation doesn't get as bad as mine has. I don't see how you are going to avoid surgery??? and you should know this as you are a nurse???????????