I'm going to take advantage of all you experienced fusion veterans that have so kindly answered questions over the last few days about what to expect after surgery and would like to ask one more:
What is your first recollection of the exact moment you woke up and just how bad was it? I know the answer to my question is PAIN, but here's what I fear - I had a single level fusion at C6/7 10 years ago. When I woke up, I had over-freakin-whelming pain in my neck and back. Muscles were spasming from my jaw to my ribcage, and I simply could not believe a human being could tolerate so much. As they wheeled me out of the recovery room, the tears were streaming down my face - I couldn't believe how bad it hurt. Even my surgeon asked me "why are you in so much pain"? I felt like kicking his a$$ but I couldn't move at the moment.
I recall that pain and feel like that single moment when I become awake from fusion, that it will be that pain from 10 years ago to the tenth power. Do they give you something while asleep during surgery to help or do you just wake up and feel everything they did to you for the previous 9 hours? This one thing (believe it or not) terrifies more than anything else about this surgery.
Please tell me the truth - I'll take it like a man. Make that a woman - men have never birthed children!
What is your first recollection of the exact moment you woke up and just how bad was it? I know the answer to my question is PAIN, but here's what I fear - I had a single level fusion at C6/7 10 years ago. When I woke up, I had over-freakin-whelming pain in my neck and back. Muscles were spasming from my jaw to my ribcage, and I simply could not believe a human being could tolerate so much. As they wheeled me out of the recovery room, the tears were streaming down my face - I couldn't believe how bad it hurt. Even my surgeon asked me "why are you in so much pain"? I felt like kicking his a$$ but I couldn't move at the moment.
I recall that pain and feel like that single moment when I become awake from fusion, that it will be that pain from 10 years ago to the tenth power. Do they give you something while asleep during surgery to help or do you just wake up and feel everything they did to you for the previous 9 hours? This one thing (believe it or not) terrifies more than anything else about this surgery.
Please tell me the truth - I'll take it like a man. Make that a woman - men have never birthed children!
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