might need a fourth surgery
Hi - I haven't been on here much this year because in May I had a rod break and been recovering from the surgery to correct it and I found pinterest. lol my goodness pinterest is an addiction! anyways I have continued to deal with a lot of pain since the may surgery. My surgeon hoped it was just to do with the surgery and I would heal and it would get better. but it hasn't. I really do not want to go through a fourth surgery and so soon after the last surgery. typically it takes about a year to recover from a back surgery so it isn't odd that I am still healing from it. another one would be tough. the thing is that my surgeon doesn't know what is causing all the pain I keep dealing with. it is the same pain that I was getting spinal injections for the the last couple years. I have to go through more tests to hopefully find out the reason for all the pain. the sad thing is that I should be recovering and the pain should be decreasing but it is increasing lately. I am having more and more difficulty staying up for over an hour. going in to town to run errands is getting very difficult and I can only manage to go in about twice a week because it takes at least a day to recover. Sorry if I am complaining-I am just getting sooooo frustrated!!! my first surgery was Oct. 15 2007.
There is a chance that I could avoid another surgery depending on what is wrong. If a surgery couldn't fix it then I wouldn't have to go through it. But that is good and bad because I would likely be stuck with this pain then. I would likely get spinal injections to help with the level of pain I deal with but it sounds like it would be a rest of my life thing. right now I am feeling I just need to accept it and figure out how to live with what ever ends up happening. but it isn't easy for sure. thanks for listening.:flowers:
