Today is day 6 post op. It is Tuesday and it is December one and just last week we were in a quandary as to whether to have the surgery or not and wondering whether it was a good thing to go to with it. Here we are almost a week later and things have changed drastically and dynamically.
So I had TLIF surgery on l4 and l5 to fix my stenosis fix the problem with the disks that had a generated and as well the spondylolisthesis which means the vertebrae had slipped. This happened last Wednesday which was the 25th of November.
I had a lot of pain yesterday and it was probably because I overdid it the day before as well as had a really tough and painful bowel movement after a bout of constipation the previous day. Woke up this morning with the pain almost where it was yesterday but probably slightly better.
The real problem is that I have not been able to sleep at night last night at all I've been listening to music on my earphones tossing and turning and just about doing everything possible to try and sleep and not being able to achieve it. This means that when I woke up this morning I had pain as well I was pretty exhausted from not sleeping. I had an early wash this morning brush my teeth shaved at Saturday but still not being able to have a full shower which is really bothering me but I guess I just have to follow the doctor's instructions.
Medications wise I am on antibiotics and paracetamol and that's it so well this is surprising to most people that's what my doctors have really put me on and they have a philosophy of not masking the pain that does not allow me to have any heavy duty pain medication.
So I have a lot of pain I'm at the actual surgery site. I do not have any pain from the early symptoms that I actually went into surgery for. This means that my sciatica pain, the pain down my thighs, my legs and my lower back and my butt are pretty much gone. This is consistent over the last 6 days. I should also add that I do not have any new pain any new tingling or numbness in my lower back or my legs at all. So as far as the surgery goes I have to say that it was a success as of date.
So I had TLIF surgery on l4 and l5 to fix my stenosis fix the problem with the disks that had a generated and as well the spondylolisthesis which means the vertebrae had slipped. This happened last Wednesday which was the 25th of November.
I had a lot of pain yesterday and it was probably because I overdid it the day before as well as had a really tough and painful bowel movement after a bout of constipation the previous day. Woke up this morning with the pain almost where it was yesterday but probably slightly better.
The real problem is that I have not been able to sleep at night last night at all I've been listening to music on my earphones tossing and turning and just about doing everything possible to try and sleep and not being able to achieve it. This means that when I woke up this morning I had pain as well I was pretty exhausted from not sleeping. I had an early wash this morning brush my teeth shaved at Saturday but still not being able to have a full shower which is really bothering me but I guess I just have to follow the doctor's instructions.
Medications wise I am on antibiotics and paracetamol and that's it so well this is surprising to most people that's what my doctors have really put me on and they have a philosophy of not masking the pain that does not allow me to have any heavy duty pain medication.
So I have a lot of pain I'm at the actual surgery site. I do not have any pain from the early symptoms that I actually went into surgery for. This means that my sciatica pain, the pain down my thighs, my legs and my lower back and my butt are pretty much gone. This is consistent over the last 6 days. I should also add that I do not have any new pain any new tingling or numbness in my lower back or my legs at all. So as far as the surgery goes I have to say that it was a success as of date.
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