Well, my shoulder surgery went well, but it aches like crazy...

[Bignate603]

I had my shoulder surgery this morning. I can feel my arm again and move my hand (the whole thing was dead weight). I'm still on local anesthetic, i don't know how long it will take for the hydrocodone and lortab to kick in and I'm starting to ache. I won't be able to do much for the next two weeks so expect me on anandtech alot... I wish i could typewith two hands though.

 

[Bignate603]

i want my next dose of drugs, it's starting to hurt...

 

[ShotgunSteven]

What did you have surgery for?

 

[Bignate603]

I streched a bunch of tendons in my shoulder from swimming. There was a possibility of torn cartlidge but it turns out it was infammed and ground up a bit but that was ok. They apparently burned the tendons to shrink them (I'm not quite sure, that's what I remember them telling me during the surgery but I was so doped up on no worry drugs my memory is cloudy). It'll be 3 months till I can raise my arm past my head, 6 till I swim again. Kind of havy to deal with when you're only 18

 

[bigshooter]

Good to hear your surgery went well. I think I posted a depressing post in your last post about how my back surgery messed up. Things got a little bit better though thanks to big long needles and a doctor that likes to put them in your back. Surgery really sucks especially if you're in high school. I had my elbow operated on my senior year and it took me out of pretty much all activities. The aching sucks, but codeine is your friend. You in a sling, or did they give you one of those shoulder cast things? One word of advice. Take the drugs, whenever you need them, don't try to act tough. I tried that and almost ended going into the emergency room the pain was so bad. Once it starts hurting, it's hard to catch up with the pain pills.

 

[Bignate603]

I'm taking the pain stuff evrytime I can, I start aching near the end of the dose so i pop the maximum i'm allowed. It's not screwing with my head like I thought it would, I feel like I'm on a light cold medicine.