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i had surgery on my fingers in oct. two of them had totally frozen, after months of locking up and having to pop them back so that i could bend them, very painful.
so i had the surgery, thinking of course it would be painful for a bit, but would eventually heal.
well, the pain is much worse since the stupid surgery, and my ring size is a full size larger, and has not gone down. i still have to massage my fingers and force bend them all during the night, or they just hurt very bad,and get very stiff, but not frozen.
this hand is noticably weaker than before, i mean my hair is past my hips, and i am not able to grip the hair brush enough to even brush my hair. although husband is getting much better w/ ponytail, it is very frustrating. it was weak prior, but not like this.
i already need help w/ so many things due to the lyme, and just was not expecting this much drama over a little hand surgery.
i know llmd said there is no "minor surgery" for a lyme patient, but i honestly thought that by 2 1/2 months post surgery, it would not be like this.
the hand surgeon is ranked top 2 in the nation from what we have been told, when last saw him, he just said give it a little time, but every other peron i have spken to w/ similiar problem healed very quickly, w/ none of the problems i am having.
just curios if anyone here has had a similiar situation.
-------------------- (((HUGS!!!))),daphne Posts: 232 | From ft. worth, texas, | Registered: Apr 2002
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did you have steroids before or during surgery? sometimes the steroids are worse than the surgery is.
everyone is different. I have had 9 surgeries since lyme and 6 of them have been in the last 6 months for my ureter (burned during ovary removal). i havent had much (if any) flares in my lyme symptoms. But I have taken longer than usual to recover and my road has been UNUSUAL to say the least.
I would ask about the steroids--they often dont reveal their use unless asked.
I now state that I am allergic to steroids and they put it on my wristband when I get admitted.
I am so sorry you are having such difficulty trails
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Don't know whether you'd be interested in playing around with possible pain reduction modalities. It would all be an experiment, to see if anything makes you feel more comfortable.
One tool I use on painful places is a 3-light red light machine from the Light Energy company. You would hold it in your good hand and move it over the painful hand and see if the pain would go down.
Another tool that worked in the past was a really strong magnet. When placed over hurting areas, the pain went straight down.
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I'm sorry to hear about your fingers. I can't even imagine.
I had surgery in Oct to remove my gallblatter and it caused my babesia to become active, which forced me to leave my job and not work for about two months.
I was fine until my 3rd day after surgery. My first day home I actually walked to the farmers market. I was so determined.
That was how many months ago? I am better but not how I was before surgery. I was working and walking 6 miles a day and doing IV therapy.
Now I work and I sleep-that's it and I infuse...
I really didn't want the surgery, but I also couldn't handle the 3 attacks I had in one month from gallstones I had, had for over a year (they say)...
Good luck!! Try the light machine, I did for my kidney stones and it definately helped.
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thanks for responding, i have tried the magnet and light, did not really notice any change though. my sister is a rep. for niken, so she lets me try all the gadgets to see if they help.
as for the steroids, i too always say i have an allergy, however this dr. already knew that i could not have them due to the lyme. that kind of impressed me, as no other dr. has ever known.
again thanks!
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