Surgery recovery time?

[Nuggin1983]

I am a 25 year old male and I had decompression surgery 6 months ago. I am still suffering severe pain in my neck and shoulders and heavily depend on pain relief (Endone) I feel like I am never going to be normal again. Has anyone had the surgery and what was your recovery like...how long until the pain subsides?

[selmaS]

  I am glad it is helping. : )

[askell4]

Thank you for the neck excersises. They seem to be helping a little. I wish I would've known to do them right away, but at least I know now. I am going to go for a walk in a little bit. Thanks again for helping give suggestions for my recovery. I already feel like I'm more optimistic today. I appreciate it more than you know. :)

[selmaS]

  There r stages of recovery and depression is one of them, so yes I do know...and u r not alone in that....it is very hard to sit and take care when u r use to pushing urself to get thru things....but, we should not have to push, and in order to feel better we have to allow the healing to occur....otherwise we can end up worse off then when we started.

No worries and do keep us posted on how u r doing : )

[askell4]

I will do the things you told me. I understand I just need to be patient, but boy is it hard! It's hard not to get depressed over it all, you know? and sometimes I second guess having done the surgery...I just hope it is all worth it in the end. Thanks again for your help. :)

[selmaS]

  I am glad to hear u r able to do those things....and it does get better with time...and as I said we all heal at different rates.

Listen to ur body, but do walk a little more each day, work on those neck exercises and u will get back ur stamina : )

[askell4]

I can sit up and walk around, and shower and do some light activity. It just seems like I get dizzy and nauseous just by doing very little. It is frustrating and I hope it is normal and will eventually go away. I am a mother of 2 small kids and used to be a very active person so it is very hard to not be able to do the things I used to do with no problems. Thanks for your help.