Question about post op pain
Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2023 6:39 pm
Hi all,
I had laparoscopic nerve detrapment surgery with Dr Lemos in Toronto in march of this year. As an aside, he was great to work with and so was his medical and surgical team. He is one of the world’s experts on laparoscopic nerve detrapment and has high success rates. He also looks at the sacral areas where the nerve originates as well. I was super impressed.
I had S 2,3,and 4 entrapped in my sacrum as well as entrapment further down the pudendal nerve, basically multiple sites that were entrapped. They’d been entrapped approximately 2.5-3 years.
Prior to surgery I was unable to walk further than a few hundred feet without severe debilitating pain, and I couldn’t sit. I also had severe vulvodynia, rectal pain and PGAD. I basically went from very athletic, working full time to living on my bed and couch.
The most effective thing for me preop were pudendal blocks, which would allow me much more function but I was still very disabled by it.
I’m coming up to 6 months postop now and my last nerve block has fully worn off. I can walk (!!!) about 3-4 km regularly now and my sitting has improved too. No more PGAD!
However, my pain in my inner butt cheek, my labia and near my rectum is really bad. It’s a sharp, burny pain that the meds don’t help too much. They told me to expect a postop nerve flare that could last a very long time. I’m unable to work still as the pain is too much and I can’t sit for long.
Could anyone who had surgery shed light on how long their pain flare lasted and signs it was subsiding?
That area feels like I’m sitting on a stove burner, and feels almost exactly the same as pre-op. Because the sacral pain and buttock pain has improved so much, I’m kind of worried this area won’t improve?
Or am I being too impatient?
Thankyou for any advice!
I had laparoscopic nerve detrapment surgery with Dr Lemos in Toronto in march of this year. As an aside, he was great to work with and so was his medical and surgical team. He is one of the world’s experts on laparoscopic nerve detrapment and has high success rates. He also looks at the sacral areas where the nerve originates as well. I was super impressed.
I had S 2,3,and 4 entrapped in my sacrum as well as entrapment further down the pudendal nerve, basically multiple sites that were entrapped. They’d been entrapped approximately 2.5-3 years.
Prior to surgery I was unable to walk further than a few hundred feet without severe debilitating pain, and I couldn’t sit. I also had severe vulvodynia, rectal pain and PGAD. I basically went from very athletic, working full time to living on my bed and couch.
The most effective thing for me preop were pudendal blocks, which would allow me much more function but I was still very disabled by it.
I’m coming up to 6 months postop now and my last nerve block has fully worn off. I can walk (!!!) about 3-4 km regularly now and my sitting has improved too. No more PGAD!
However, my pain in my inner butt cheek, my labia and near my rectum is really bad. It’s a sharp, burny pain that the meds don’t help too much. They told me to expect a postop nerve flare that could last a very long time. I’m unable to work still as the pain is too much and I can’t sit for long.
Could anyone who had surgery shed light on how long their pain flare lasted and signs it was subsiding?
That area feels like I’m sitting on a stove burner, and feels almost exactly the same as pre-op. Because the sacral pain and buttock pain has improved so much, I’m kind of worried this area won’t improve?
Or am I being too impatient?
Thankyou for any advice!