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This is but one case study where a patient was seen with the ability to return to work free of pain medications. There is another case study of a women who was also free of pain medications in the 3-6 month timeframe. I'll post that case study later if I can find it.

At five months after surgery, he had returned to work with relief of pain, and was also free of any analgesic medications.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210261218300415

I'm not certain how long pain medication is generally taken post spine surgery but the below numbers suggest that the length definitely exceeds 12 months.

Ali et al. [2] reported that 35% of patients continued to take pain medications for symptoms at 38 months following fusion surgery for adult idiopathic scoliosis. In comparing lumbar disc arthroplasty with fusion for single-level degenerative disc disease, Blumenthal et al. [3] reported a narcotic use rate of 64% in the arthroplasty group and 80.4% in the lumbar fusion cohort at 24 months after surgery. Despite this high narcotic requirement, these patients were within a subgroup of patients that were categorized as a clinical success. Hallet et al. [4] reported that 64–83% of patients with lumbar single-level disc disease were taking at least one oral strong analgesic or anti-inflammatory agent at 2 years after decompression or fusion surgery.

https://academic.oup.com/painmedicine/article/15/12/2161/1818451

It might be worth investigating how long the average patient uses pain medications of silicon nitride implants. Given Si3N4 faster fusion rates and societies opioid epidemic, si3N4 implants, particularly spinal, could be seen as a solution for reducing usage and thus reduce risk of long-term abuse.