Tomorrow I will be 4 weeks post op. I have yet to see my neurosurgeon outside of the hospital. So many questions. Please for those of you that read this please share what you can. All I do is cry now. I was so stupid to think that I was going to feel instantly better. In a lot of ways I do there is however this new pain that comes over my eye and is killer. I am now sensitive to light - it will bring on one of those newly acquired headaches. I am a little "duh", I tire easily, am having trouble concentrating and when outside it feels as if I'm overstimulated. Everything seems surreal. Has this been the experience of many of you out there? I am off of all pain meds, have been for three weeks. This new headache does not respond to pain meds. A percocet will take the edge off but thats all. Its like I'm here but then I'm not. I want to be whole again. I want to be able to walk for a distance without a walker. I want to come out of the dark world this surgery has thrown me into. I have to watch tv with sunglasses. Please share your post op experiences with me so that I can ascertain what is "normal" and what is something I should look out for. Last week I bent down to pick up my dog bowl and upon rising I fell into my friend. My head spun like vertigo...exactly like vertigo without the dizziness. It was also different in that it was if my skull hadn't made a complete rotation and I was having trouble foucusing for a few minutes. It was an isolated incident so I figured it was normal. The headaches and light sensitivity, concentration, "duh" and feeling of being here but not are my primary concerns. Do they go away? How long before I'm back to "normal"? How long was your surgery? Hospital stay? What were the first few weeks like? I felt like wonder woman the day after surgery, life was great. It was a couple of days after I got home that my head started to hurt and light sensitivity began approx a week after surgery.