Is this normal post op?

[Tharris85]

As of yesterday I am 6 weeks post op and up until a few days ago I have felt awesome. Yesterday I had a headache all day (in the front) and my lower back was killing me. I haven't been taking any pain medications for at least 5 days because I haven't needed anything and

[selmaS]

  Hi...how much pain meds were u given? Many times the Dr will give u enuff to cover the time frame u should be taking it.

U may not have had pain while on the meds, as they did their job, but u r not yet healed and now feeling it .

I would sugget getting on a min of pain meds, some r to relax the muscles too....so keep in mind it is helpful to use them for this purpose.
The additional work on C1 and C2 may or may not have nething to do with it as many of us have some of those 2 vertebrae chipped away during this procedure.

The crying post op is very "normal" with this surgery, I think we all had the issues with crying over Hallmark card commercials and other things we did not think we should be crying over....crying easily is diff from depression.....so how u r feeling is "normal" for us.

U r also deff doing way too much and will set off the pain again...so take ur pain meds, but cut back...

[Tharris85]

I forgot to mention that during surgery he also had to remove some of C1 and C2. I don't know if that has anything to do with it.

[Tharris85]

Cont... I started slowly weaning myself off of my pain meds about 2 1/2 weeks ago and stopped taking the percoset completely and started to only take 1 of my pain pills (noroco) a day, usually in the morning because that's when I was in pain. Today I don't have a headache but my lower back and now the middle of my back hurts so bad that I can fill it through my chest. I wasn't too concerned about my lower back I just assumed it was my period coming but now that my upper backs hurts I am concerned. I should also mention that I have had diarrhea for 3 or 4 days and have been having pain at my inscision site as well. I know I have been pushing myself but I felt great so I thought I could. We got a new house and I felt obligated to help move things and now with unpacking too. I pretty much layed in bed all day yesterday and today now too. I am starting to get worried. I stopped taking the percoset because my nurse said that I needed to be careful with it because it can cause depression and I was crying a lot and feeling down so I thought if I stopped taking it I would feel happy again but I feel worse. I cry all the time and just start yelling and getting upset for no reason. Is this normal?!? I go to the dr Monday for my 6 week check up but just want some reassurance until then.