On Wednesday I was so excited to finally get my immobilizer off...I mean I would be able to sleep in my bed for the first time in over a month. Who wouldn't be excited? Well that excitement ended after the first 5 minutes in bed. Just because the immobilizer is gone doesn't mean I am going to be without pain and did I ever feel that pain. The first trouble for me was trying to get comfortable. I sleep on my left side which is the shoulder I had the operation on. I decided to try and test it to see how much pressure I could put on it and it wasn't that much. So after some manuvering I finally got comfortable...for 5-10 minutes at least. Then every time I tried to shift positions my shoulder would feel it. It wasn't really that painful but I noticed it enough to make it uncomfortable and hard to fall asleep. A few times I did tweak it pretty bad though. Last night was my 3rd night without the immobilizer and each night it has become just a little easier to fall asleep. Hopefully withing a week or so it should be a lot better.
On a side note I am in therapy with a patient how had her surgery almost 7 months ago and she said just the other night she tweaked in pretty good in bed. So it seems like the "tweaking" won't be ending anytime soon.
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