After the herniated disc surgery, you should make sure that no water touches your back wound for at least 5 days. Since the wounds are usually closed with hidden stitches nowadays, you can remove your dressing and take a bath at the end of this period. But if you have been told to have your stitches removed, then you will need to have your stitches removed on the 7th day, but your wound will need to be covered with a dressing during this time.
It would be appropriate to spend the first week mostly indoors, usually resting in bed; After the first week, you can leave the house intermittently, and even go to work, provided that it is not for a long time. When one month is up, at a center close to your work or home; You will start physical therapy for 1 month. You will make the movements that they teach you during physical therapy a part of your life from now on.
After physical therapy is over, after exercising for 1 month; that is, at the end of 3 months, you can become a member of a gym and engage in heavy sports and return to your heavy work. You will use the painkillers, muscle relaxants and antibiotics given to you after the surgery for the period recommended by your surgeon and then stop. Do not forget that you had the surgery to get rid of the drugs and reach a quality life.
Sleep on a hard bed, that is, not on the floor or on a hard board or anything; on an ordinary ready-made spring mattress. Don’t sleep on the sofa. Replace your mattress every 8 years. Do not use a Turkish style toilet, always sit on the toilet. If it is impossible for you to give up the Turkish style toilet, then get the newly designed low sitting toilets. While sitting, not on the sofa, but on the chair; So sit without leaning back.
Protect your back from the cold. Do not make unbalanced and compulsive movements; For example, do not lift very heavy objects and do not carry weights in one hand. Do not sit in inappropriate ways for long periods of time. If you have been told to wear a corset for a certain period of time, never remove your corset while sitting or standing, but never use your corset for more than the recommended time.
Of course, all this is valid unless your surgeon has told you otherwise.
