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[squirtatious]

I've posted here now several times. I'm 4 weeks out from an l5/s1 open back fusion with instrumentation. I'm interested in talking to other kindred fusion spirits, to hear their journey and how they healed and the stages it took. I'm still in pain but push thru it and walk everyday. Plz sumone, it would be so nice to have sumone to talk to who's walked my path. Greatest blessings to u:)

[Kalvin]

I hope you felt better and had a good day!

K

[squirtatious]

Kalvin, from listening to who u are thru ur posts...I've no doubt u raised sum wonderful girls, just like urself!!!! I still havnt been doing a lot, I did go waqlking yesterday, first time in several days. I am going to try to go walkng again tomorrow. I need to learn the boundaries btwn walking, and trying to do too much lol. Oh ur so lucky u never became constipated lol. To this day, I struggle with having no urge to poop lol.  Have a great week my friend:)

[Kalvin]

How are you doin? Are you feeling any better? Hope so. I didn’t like the loopy feelings the drugs gave me either, but they did help with the horrible pain I was in. 16 days wow, I didn’t have much trouble with constipation, just lucky I guess. But I know it can be very painful and I have had a family member who has gone through the hellish experience you describe. It’s like the back and leg pain isn’t enough, you have to deal with that too.

I didn’t realize you had a son that old, even so, we males can be very inconsiderate at times without really realizing it. I have 2 girls, their both on their own doing good. I don’t know how they turned out so good, because I was a total screw up as a kid.

Take Care

K

[squirtatious]

Thank u kalvin, never thought to post a topic there!!! I dislike the "loopy" feeling I get on percocet but the pain in my back and even in my tailbone region hurts enough that I have to still have sumthing. After my surgery, I didn't have a bowel movement for 16 daYs. I'm sure the surgery was just hard on my body and the pain meds helped to make me constipated even with the stool softeners I was taking. It was strange...I simply lost the urge to poop. Since I began taking percocets, I'm beginning down that path again. I had to go to instacare the last time cuz I was so impacted and it was a hellish experience that I'm still paying for. I think it messed up my stomach cuz since then, my upper abdomen has not stopped hurting. I have appt on 22nd with a stomach dr. More info than u probably wanted to know lol. My son's are 19, and 13 btw. I'm hoping my surgeon will agree to a tens unit for me. Anyway, thanks for listening and have a great nite:)

[Kalvin]

Your boys are probably just too young to understand whats going on with you and how serious it is. The whole thing could be scaring them a little bit and by not being supportive, they trying to run from it. Thats me the child psychologist, I've practiced on mine too, and besides that I was a real rascal when I was a kid, so I know how they think.

Sorry you've been feeling bad, running errands and getting in an out of a vehicle is hard on a person, its hard on me. I know they really push the walking after surgery, I just couldn't for a long time, and when I could walking around in those stores use to kill me. Especially Walmart. Sorry I don't remember half of those body maneuvers they  taught me. I don't think you hurt yourself, unless you had a hard fall You just have  more healing to do. I have a tens unit, do you think one will help you?

When I was at 7 weeks I was taking about 7-8 10 mg/650 mg Percocet, somewhere around 1200-1800mgs of Neurontin ( its like lyrica) and 30mg of flexeril a day. No wonder I couldn't walk right. So its amazing to me that your only taking I or 2 a day, that's incredible.

I hope you feel better soon. And I wanted to tell you that you might want to try posting one of your topics over on the Pain Management board, I post over there once in a while and I think you'd get a better response. They have 2 moderators over there that are really nice.

Take Care

K

[squirtatious]

Thanks kalvin *hugs* my teenage boys have not been as supportive of me after my surgery and with my temp limitations as my daughter has. We will have to have a family pow wow. I've begun to take a percocet once or twice a day depending on how I feel. Not sure why things would be goin great for so many weeks then the pain in my back gets worse. Maybe I walked too much lol? I have had it drilled into me to walk, walk, walk. And so I did. Havnt the last 3 days or so cuz just doing errands and driving and getting in and out of my van to go into places tuckers me out and makes my pain in my back pretty strong. Resting doesn't seem to help. Can't wait for my dr appt next week on the 9th. I'm going to talk to him bout getting a tenz unit and I have several questions for him. When I left the hospital, I was only taught how to safely log roll out of bed. No other safety proper body manuevers were taught to me so I hope I havnt messed up my back with daily activities. I try to be as careful as I can. Anyway, thank u for listening to me and have a wonderful evening!!!