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Posted 10/26/2015 2:48 PM (GMT 0)
Hello everyone! I hope y'all are doing well. Quick question....
So, I am now four months post op - yay!
However, I was trying to be super helpful to my boyfriend while he was at work last night. I thought I would clean the shower and do some laundry. I sprayed the cleaning stuff in the shower to let it set.. and then forgot all about it! I continued with the laundry and an hour or so later went to shower. You can imagine what ensued.. I ended up slipping and falling, hitting my head, elbow and shin. Mostly, my shin just hurts and has a huge knot on it and bruising. My question is, what are the chances of my screws being affected? Should I go have an xray done? Am I being dramatic? I am in pain today, but it isn't unbearable.
Posted 10/26/2015 3:10 PM (GMT 0)
To help calm your fears, why not call the surgeons office & speak to the nurse. Let her know what is going on & see what she suggests. Since nothing unbearable is going on I would take that as a good sign, but to be safe I would make the call.

Let us know what you find out.
Posted 10/26/2015 3:17 PM (GMT 0)
Thank you straydog. I followed your advice and I just called the nurse and she said she is going to speak with my surgeon just to be on the safe side. She said she feels as though my pain is probably normal. Fingers crossed!!
Posted 4/4/2016 11:23 AM (GMT 0)
Hello, I'm new here despite having looked in before surgery but now registered to join in.
I'm just over 4 weeks after ACDF surgery on c4/5 and c5/6. Immediately after surgery I felt amazing! I had none of the neck stiffness nor arm pain and numbness I had previous to Op. However, from about 3 weeks afterwards, and after doing very little, I have been experiencing quite bad arm pain and numbness although nowhere near what I had pre-op. Just worried why.
My voice, although my throat has never been sore, is still quite croaky and weak. I am also quite emotional, crying easily at silly stuff on TV etc, which is totally not me.! Otherwise, seem to be up and going ok.
I have absolutely no regrets in having the op, I am 45 years old female. ( I didn't actually have an option as my spinal compression was so severe by the time I was seen, despite years of doc visits, but that's another story!)
My only frustration lies in the amount of time the healing process is taking on my body as a whole. I am so slow in whatever I do and so easily tired, which again is not me. I thought that after 3/4 weeks I'd be back to normal again. I don't even see that being the case at 6 weeks?
Has anyone else, same age, had similar? I thought that my age would've enabled me to recover quicker. And has anyone else suffered a loss of patience in the process? Lol!
Posted 4/4/2016 11:36 AM (GMT 0)
Hi GFM, welcome to Healing Well. If you would please make a separate intro post. To make a new post click Post New Topic, type in a heading & what you have written above is fine for an intro post. We don't want to hijack Kelcar's thread.

Thanks.
Posted 4/6/2016 3:47 PM (GMT 0)
Hi kelcar1987 I'm 4 weeks acdf c6c7 post op the thing my neurosurgeon was happy with was that I'm not on a time frame to get back to work as I'm a stay at home house wife and mother I'm lucky that my husband has been able to take 3 months off work to take over the housework and look after our children. Im still not driving yet I see my ns on the 22nd and that's when hopefully I get the go ahead to drive and do small amounts of housework. Boardom is thy enemy I feel really good so it's hard not to do things but like I've been told from lots of people here is to take it easy as you don't want to undo all the good that the Drs have done.
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