Hello, all I recently had back surgery not once but twice ,January 21,2008 and again on March 7,2008 ..I was what I thought to be a healthy person over all ,boy was I shocked!!! I woke up on a saturday morning in January in the worst pain I had ever felt ,come to find out my disc had shattered in my sleep , I had horrible pain down my right leg and my right foot was also totally numb,I was diagnosed with degenrative disc disease, that is why I had to have two surgery ,to be exact right lumbar microdisectomy ..