I have remnants of leg symptoms that are usually at such a low level that I just call them annoying. Normally, it's a numb spot on the bottom of my foot. When I provoke more symptoms with high activity levels, the numb spot gets bigger and I get some foot pain.
I had to go read a little about RLS, because I did not think that I'd describe my reaction to these radicular symptoms as RLS, but when the symptoms get turned up, I'll constantly move my left leg when resting. I would not call it uncontrollable... it almost seems willful. I can stop it.. but it seems to feel better when moving. I would have expected that RLS was more of a spastic and uncontrollable syndrome. (I'm sure it can be, but what I experience is nothing close to uncontrollable.)
I want to make it clear that these radicular symptoms are VERY minor. I had very severe radicular symptoms before my ADR surgery and I did not expect any improvement in the leg pain... I thought I was doing ADR only for low back pain. I was shocked and amazed when my leg pain was 95% resolved by the ADR surgery. The RLS symptoms are only occasionally when the radicular symptoms take the step from only annoying, to slightly more than annoying.
Rob... great post.
Mark
PS... thanks for posting your surgical outcome. I'll move it to the surgical outcomes thread soon. Did you go back and put functionality and satisfaction scores?
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