May 21
I had 8 facet joint nerves burned away yesterday afternoon using a technique called radio frequency ablation. The facet joint nerves serve no purpose other than to hurt, so they can be burned away to take away the pain but lose no function.
It went well. Pain largely gone, except for residual pain from the procedure itself.
I’ll be tender a few days it looks like and then back to full speed with, we hope, no lower back pain.