All rusty I’m so sorry you continue to have this awful pain.
You and three of my other friends have all had surgery in fall summer or spring
. They chose surgery because they were having a whole lot of pain and issues also. Two with the back, one on her foot,and you with the neck. In every case the pain is significantly worse and painkillers don’t touch it.
I think it’s a shame that surgeons do not tell you that the pain will not go away. They may correct whatever issue is there but that does not mean pain is alleviated.
That is why a knife will come nowhere to near my back. The hernia surgery was soft tissue. No bone or bone/nerve involved . I went off narcotic in two days. No hernia surgery pain .. only back
The doctor won’t give guarantees because they can’t. There’s also a chance of paralysis they do tell you about.
Hopefully the pain is mostly muscular and I can work on that.
It’s not worse than it was before the surgery.
I was having awful vision problems before and that hasn’t happened since surgery so that’s good.
How are you doing? 2024 will be better for us!