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If you're in shape, you will recover faster. Paradoxically, as you're in shape, and likely exercise to remain so, you'll feel more of the deficit and be aware that you haven't gotten it all back. As you have two levels, you'll take longer to recover. If either level has significant height loss, the stretching of the ligaments when they put the ADR in place will hurt for a while. Three months would likely be enough to be able to live a careful life without worries about your surgical recovery. Six months or more, depending on what actually needs to be done when you get the surgery, would likely be required to be fully up to speed. All this presumes complete success, but it sounds like you're asking the questions that will give you the info to stack the odds in your favor.

When Laura got her L5S1 ADR, she was discharged from the clinic in Munich on Monday. We walked around Munich that week, stopping and resting or returning to the hotel using transit any time she was tired or in pain. We ended up with about 30 miles of waking in the week between discharge and follow-up appointment and Zeeger's was annoyed, not really angry, that she'd done too much. On the other hand, Laura spent a full year recovering to the point where hiking, biking, and skiing capabilities weren't impacted. She went from summiting Grand Teton or biking a 204 mile route in a day to DDD diagnosis to surgery in 10 months then spent 12 months getting back to that kind of shape.