Almost like new!
Hello to all! After my Lumbar Fusion in January, awesome Physical Therapy and expiring my FMLA for the year, I return to work on Monday with a back that is pain free as are most of the nerves and muscles around the surgical site. I slept and was in pain for the first month, slept alot because they got my meds regulated to reduce the awful neuropathy for the second month and slept a lot but did physical therapy 3 days per week and few other outside things the third month. Well, tonight I didn't take the one med that makes me sooooo sleepy but controlled the neuropathy to discover that the neuropathy is (at least for this particular 12 hours) down to just a slight tingle/burn in the bottom of my foot! This is coming from someone who wanted to cut off her big toe in month 1 because it felt like someone stuck it in the hot coals 24/7. Taking this med and working was really starting to worry me so I had to do something. I'll see how I feel in the morning but right now...pretty damn good. Had I not gotten up to go to the bathroom, I wouldn't be typing this now. I was supposed to take it at 8pm, went to bed at 11:45pm and it's going on 2:30am. I'm going back to bed and hope by morning I won't have to take the 8am dose either! I hope you all have a Happy Hump Day! I'm plannin' on it!