Hello everyone has anyone had to have surgery just becouse of back spasms from your butt to the shoulders and the constant low throbing back ache with a few daily knife jabs and electrical shocks that drop you to your knees and thats on the good days and on the bad days,weeks ,months constantly your bent over in half and twisted up like a pretzel and unable to straighten up in any position that was my life for three and a half years the drugs I was takeing kept getting stronger and stronger until at the end I was takeing oxycontin,percocet,dillaudid and valium all at one time per my doctor and it didnt even phase me I might as well have taken suger pills on 10-6-09 I had ALIF on L4/5 done no more spasms and every day Im feeling better I feel like a new man thank god.