Anyone had lumbar laminectomies? Postop symptoms with BI

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Hi,

I have BI and minimal ACM, without surgery yet. I elected to first

undergo L4-S1 laminectomies for central canal stenosis and am 8 days

postop. This is my first-ever surgery. Having dealt with BI/ACM for

years, I guess I thought back surgery would be a cake walk in

comparison. However, I feel lousy--I'm nauseated, lethargic, off-

balance, weak and having air hunger, in addition to hip pain. I'm

supposed to be walking 1-2 miles daily by this Wednesday and back to

work next Friday, but there's no way I'll meet those goals.

I weaned off the Percocet (TOXIC!) at day #5 and am taking only

Tylenol. I'm eating a fabulously healthy diet and following doc's

directions to a T. I'm assuming the BI is making the recovery a bit

harder.

Any input in regards to generalized surgical recovery would be just the

thing to perk me up.

Thanks,