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Originally Posted by M. Steng
Thanks for the insight . I'm also feeling like my stamina is an issue. I walk my driveway every day, and try to do one more "lap" every day, but I feel absolutely wiped afterwards. I'm finding myself taking lots of naps between 4-6. Being confined mostly to the house has been killing me though, I'm bored to tears and am itching to get cleared to go back to work.
I'm almost two weeks out from surgery and feeling pretty good as far as soreness goes. I'm walking fairly normally, although my gait is still a little draggy/crooked, haha. Do you still experience soreness in the mornings? I feel like life is going to be a lot different than I imagined it would be post surgery and that I'll unfortunately be much more limited than I thought I would be.
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I get occasional soreness and ironically tonight, I got some weird throbbing sensation in the surgery area but generally I go weeks with no soreness. The soreness I was referring to started up after I went back to work as expected. I went from laying in bed or on the coach for much of 2 months to standing on my feet all day. After returning to work, I took aleve or painkiller before and after work to take the edge off the soreness coming and weaned down to nothing probably by March.
I am not limited at all and haven't been. Like I had said, by May, I coaching baseball trying to help 7 year old learn and play which isn't easy. I also drove to Charlottesville from Ct and back on a mini vacation in May with no issues. This past summer, we went a vacation with lots of amusements, driving, beaches, etc and no problems.
Like I said before in this thread, I wish I had it years earlier as it really went well for me. I think I came out on the other side better than most do. My oldest is now 10 and I remember my wife being concerned with me picking him up as a baby since I would get back spasms back then and throughout my years of pain that would take me to the floor if I didn't grab a counter or wall to hold on and brace myself and she feared me having one while holding him and falling.