Post Op bariatric surgery with untreated PMR

[PJarret]

The surgery was Feb 5, last week. I did okay with it, but was still feeling a bit of PMR in my right shoulder. The liquid diet before and after is still going well. Three days ago I woke up was great pain in my lower right back. It was a seven on my 1 to 10 pain scale. I could barely get up off my chair, the pain bringing tears to my eyes and a deep wrenching. It is PMR attacking my body another way. My surgery wounds are almost healed and I have no pain whatsoever in my stomach cavity. I needed assistance to do almost everything. And then last night the pain started abating, until today noonish I can navigate on my own with a walker with the pain from 4 to 5 on my pain scale.. A vast improvement.

Medical practitioners where I live seem to have no concept of PMR. There are few Scandinavians living where I do and so health care seems to ignore it

The good news is that I can start taking prednisone in three weeks, fully six months after I had mentioned the PMR to my surgeon and others. I hope I can get through another three weeks without the excruciating pain!

[PMRpro Ambassador]

Sounds like a low back muscle spasm - possibly a left-over from how you were positioned on the op table.

[PJarret in reply to PMRpro]

Thanks, come to think of it it could have been a muscle spasm. It is getting better all the time!

[SnazzyD]

Doesn’t sound like how others describe PMR in its location, nature and the way it abated on its own. Don’t forget, although your wounds look ok, you are still doing a lot of healing especially inside; it takes months. Might have been renal or as PMRPro says, a muscle spasm.

[PJarret in reply to SnazzyD]

You are right, SnazzyD. It is probably something else. Thanks for helping me out with this.

[SheffieldJane]

I awoke from surgery feeling as if there was a Rhino sitting on my chest. My dubious GP at that time said perhaps your heart stopped and they resuscitated you. My point is, lord knows what happens during an operation and I expect strange pains are part of that.

[Daisychain12 in reply to SheffieldJane]

My friend had her shoulder dislocated while unconscious and they didn’t even tell her. They hoped she wouldn’t notice!!!!!

[PJarret]

I don't doubt that a bit. My husband says there is a big bruise right over the epicenter of the back spasm. Doing much better! Thanks.