For the past few days, I've been having terrible pain back there, and it seems to be getting worse. It's hard to tell if it's the iliac screw, or what. It's coinciding with this drainage tube being installed, so I'm starting to wonder if having all the fluid in me was acting as a cushion of some sort..? The pain though is REALLY bad. I could hardly stand up long enough to brush my teeth this morning. A week ago I was outside walking the dog around the block, so this is a disappointing setback. I finally decided to send my surgeons nurse a message about this today, but it was about ten minutes from 5:00, so I'm not expecting a response until Monday.
I know it's still VERY early in my recovery, I'm at about 5 weeks now. I've been reading through some old threads, and I see this isn't the first time this has happened. Is there a way to know for sure if this is definitely coming from the fixation screw? And is it odd for this to just sort of come out of nowhere, and this painful? I'm dreading getting up to walk at this point. I keep thinking I've done something to mess up the hardware somehow... Bending down too much or something. I do think I've been bending at the waist way too much, and just probably doing things I shouldn't have been doing. The thought was, if I can do it without hurting, it must be ok.. I really hope I didn't break anything in there. The only real relief I get is laying down.
I go in for a checkup next Thursday, so we'll see. Anyone have experience or advice here, other than what turned up in a couple searches I did? This just seems like such a setback right now, and it's very frustrating...
I know it's still VERY early in my recovery, I'm at about 5 weeks now. I've been reading through some old threads, and I see this isn't the first time this has happened. Is there a way to know for sure if this is definitely coming from the fixation screw? And is it odd for this to just sort of come out of nowhere, and this painful? I'm dreading getting up to walk at this point. I keep thinking I've done something to mess up the hardware somehow... Bending down too much or something. I do think I've been bending at the waist way too much, and just probably doing things I shouldn't have been doing. The thought was, if I can do it without hurting, it must be ok.. I really hope I didn't break anything in there. The only real relief I get is laying down.
I go in for a checkup next Thursday, so we'll see. Anyone have experience or advice here, other than what turned up in a couple searches I did? This just seems like such a setback right now, and it's very frustrating...
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