22 Months After Coccyx Removal
22 Months After Recovering From Coccygectomy Surgery Wow how time flies! It has been some time since I have given an update, so I wanted to share with you how I have felt since I had my tailbone removed 22 months ago. I still consider the surgery a great success, but honestly I still have pain everyday. I am still under the care of a pain management physician and there are days I am really miserable and some days I stay comfortable for most of the day. The pain levels are nowhere near the pre-surgery levels, so in that regard I certainly cant complain. So when I have bad days I just remember how I used to feel. On my worst days pain levels can be about 60% of my pre-surgery days. On good days, pain levels are as low as 20% and luckily I have more of these days than the former. I find that being able to stand up and walk around is very critical to my comfort levels. If I am confined to one space for more than 30 minutes then I become very uncomfortable. Traveling in an airplane is the worst case scenario for me and is almost unbearable and does approach 100% pre surgery pain levels. I am investigating some options such as nerve ablation using radio waves frequency and looking at the possibility that the...
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