SCS Surgery Recovery

It has been six days since my surgery. The recover has been rough! Worse than I expected. I can handle pain well, but I have been taking a lot of Percocet. Between that and the Benadryl for my allergy to the dressing, I have taken naps every day. The first two days after surgery, I slept more than I was awake. I did not mind, because I know that sleep helps the body heal.

The pain from the surgery is bad at the spinal incision, but it is worth at the flank incision. My poor hip/butt. It hurts to walk. Sometimes I cannot even bear weight on that leg; the pain is too severe.

However... The device is working. It helps so much with my burning pain! My spasticity has also been better, but I wonder if that is because of the SCS or because of all the rest I am getting.

I am looking forward to the surgery sites healing! And I cannot wait to have the dressing removed, to stop the itching. Eight more days.

Oh, and in non-MS news, I broke the filling of a tooth. On the other side of my mouth from where I had my implant placed. So now it is very hard to eat! Need to find a dentist, because I do not like mine. He let that one tooth rot enough that I needed an implant. And I told him the crown did not fit well. He has lost me trust. Agh, making a dentist appointment is just one more thing to do for my part-time job of managing my health.