Swimming after L4-L5 microdiscectomy

Hello!

When did you really get back into fun and fast swimming?

I m 5 weeks post surgery. I have no pain anymore, just stiffness sometimes and I solve that by laying down for 20 min. First 3 weeks I wasnt allowed to go back swimming. Before that, I used to go 3 times per week and mostly front crawl because that s my favorite style for 40 mins and 20 mins backstroke or breaststroke.

Now the surgeon said to start with walking in the water and breaststroke (but slowwwwwly) because front crawl includes twisting and we dont want that. It s killing me inside honestly because I m getting so bored at the pool. i dont want to rush this so I dont reherniate or have other complications but I need to hear other people’s stories about this to at least know when to expect to be able to swim how I want again.

I m not a professional swimmer, i just love it very much and miss it like hell.